General Grant, who took a surprisingly small interest in military affairs, was once introduced to the second Duke of Wellington. "They tell me," Grant remarked, "that your father was also a military man."
Source: Paul Boller, Presidential Anecdotes
Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-85), Civil War general, commander in chief of the Union forces, 18th president of the United States (1869-77)
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