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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 25. Chapters: Burials at Notre-Dame Cathedral, Luxembourg, George S. Patton, John of Bohemia, Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma, Charlotte, Grand Duchess... Viac o knihe

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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 25. Chapters: Burials at Notre-Dame Cathedral, Luxembourg, George S. Patton, John of Bohemia, Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma, Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Princess Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium, Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal, William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Wilhelm Voigt, Willibrord, Léon Lommel. Excerpt: World War I World War II George Smith Patton, Jr. (November 11, 1885 - December 21, 1945) was a United States Army officer best known for his leadership while commanding corps and armies as a general during World War II. He was also well known for his eccentricity and controversial outspokenness. Patton was commissioned in the U.S. Army after his graduation from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1909. In 1916-17, he participated in the unsuccessful Pancho Villa Expedition, a U.S. operation that attempted to capture the Mexican revolutionary. In World War I, he was the first officer assigned to the new United States Tank Corps and saw action in France. In World War II, he commanded corps and armies in North Africa, Sicily, and the European Theater of Operations. Near the end of the Sicilian campaign, he jeopardized his career by slapping a soldier (whom he regarded as a coward) while the soldier was recuperating from battle fatigue at a hospital. Relieved of his command by Allied Supreme Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower over the well-publicized incident, Patton was relegated to acting as a decoy in Operation Quicksilver instead of playing a major part in the Normandy Landings and Operation Overlord; however, he was later given command of the U.S. Third Army and ably led it in breaking out of the hedgerows of Normandy and across France. A surprise German offensive at the Battle of the Bulge resulted in American units being surrounded at Bastogne, but Patton rapidly disengaged his army from fighting in another sector and moved it over 100 miles in 48 hours to help relieve the siege. George Smith Patton was born in San Gabriel Township, California in 1885 (in what is now the city of San Marino), to George Smith Patton Sr. (1856-1927) and his wife Ruth Wilson (1861-1928). Although he was actually the third George Smith Patton, he was called Junior. The Pattons were an affluent family of Scottish ancestry. As a boy, Patton read widely in the classics and mi

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