King Richard III


XVII



Richard had spent a lot of time alone, mostly around the wooded areas around Windsor, hunting. It was not a past time that he normally had done a few years before, he became King. The great outdoors had more of an appeal to him, it was somewhere, where he could think and contemplate on his life...

Ulysses S Grant (1822 – 1885)
West Point 1843, 21/39

Grant was born Hiram Ulysses, at Point Pleasant in southwestern Ohio. Both as a child and as a cadet at West Point, he was chiefly noted for his skill with handling horses, and his talent with mathematics. The shy and diminutive Grant was nicknamed ‘Sam Grant’ at West Point, where he proved himself to be a deceptively strong personality with a gritty fighting spirit. Grant performed well in the Mexican War, serving in the...