U. S. Grant showed little promise at West Point. Although relatively well educated, he studied little. He stood out in mathematics and horsemanship, which had always been his best subjects, as ...

West Point dates to 1802. Since then, the college has educated future military leaders including Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Gen. George Patton and Presidents Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower.

A rising wave of racist violence in the South prompted President Ulysses S. Grant to legal and military action against the Ku ...

At West Point, Rufus Ingalls was Ulysses S. Grant’s first roommate, and he roomed with Grant again at Camp Vancouver in 1852.

Two other Confederate officers in the commission’s crosshairs were West Point grads P.G.T. Beauregard and William Hardee. The panel called for Beauregard Place and Hardee Place to be renamed.

Before Ulysses S. Grant became the 18th president - He was named Hiram Ulysses Grant, but when he entered the United States Military Academy at West Point his name was miswritten as “Ulysses ...

That president was Ulysses S. Grant, and it happened while he was in office. In 1872, President Grant was speeding down a Washington, D.C., street in his horse and buggy.

Historians are hailing Congress' recent decision to promote Ulysses S. Grant to the Army's highest rank, ... who taught for three years at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York.

General Ulysses S. Grant at Cold Harbor ... received a nomination to West Point in 1839 and graduated in 1843 as a second lieutenant, assigned to the infantry.

Some of the items removed include portraits of Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant in Confederate uniform, stone busts of Lee and Grant, and a bronze triptych, West Point’s Superintendent ...