The Grants had a flexible itinerary and their visits to various countries would bring them to Paris three times during their tour. The tour was filled with visits to a variety of places and prominent people, including Queen Victoria, Pope Leo XIII, Otto von Bismarck and other such dignitaries around the world. With his wife Julia they embarked on a long-anticipated tour, which would develop into an around the world tour, lasting more than two and a half years.
Now in his later fifties, Grant looked forward to the tour with great enthusiasm. After serving as a general during the Civil War, and as president for two consecutive terms during the turbulent Reconstruction Era, Grant was ready for a vacation from the years of stress that war and politics had brought him. Grant began in May 1877, only a couple of months after Grant's second presidential term had ended.
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