Grant's Post-Presidency Trip Around the World

USS Indiana, the ship that carried Ulysses S. Grant to Europe. An engraving from the book, “Around the World with General Grant,” by John Russell Young, 1879.

As Ulysses S. Grant, the reluctant eighteenth U.S. president, later told it, he “was never so happy in my life as the day I left the White House. I felt like a boy getting out of school." Having…