George Patton Research Paper

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George Smith Patton was born November 11,1885 in San Gabriel, California. George Patton was born to a wealthy california family. George Patton was known for the most complicated military men of all time. During his childhood, he heard a lot of stories about his ancestors’ victories in the American Revolution and Civil War, so he followed their footsteps and went to Virginia Military Institute in 1904. A year later, he attended the U.S, military academy and graduated on june 11, 1909. George Patton had his real first battle in 1915, when leading cavalry patrols against Pancho Villa at Fort Bliss along the mexican border. In 1916 he was selected to aide John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in Mexico. At the war, George Patton impressed Perishing by shooting the mexican leader, Julio Cardenas during the battle of Columbus. Perishing was very shocked and surprised what Patton did at the war. He was a good shooter in all times. When they found out about George Patton special talent, they promoted Patton to captain and invited him to lead Pershing’s Headquarters Troop once they left to Mexico. It was during WW11 that Patton hit the high point of his military career. In 1943, he used daring assault and defense tactics to lead the 7th U.S. army to victory at the invasion of sicily. On D-Day in …show more content…

That December, Patton broke his neck in an automobile accident near Mannheim, Germany; he died in a Heidelberg hospital 12 days later. Patton’s memoir, titled “War As I Knew It,” was published posthumously in 1947; his larger-than-life persona later made its way to the silver screen in an Academy Award-winning 1970 biopic starring George C.

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