Order of the Redeemer

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 37. Chapters: Recipients of the Order of the Redeemer, Constantine Kanaris, Ludwig I of Bavaria, John J. Pershing, Prince Louis of Battenberg, George I of Greece, Amha Selassie of Ethiopia, Theodoros Kolokotronis, George Burroughs Torrey, Lancelot Holland, Alexandros Mavrokordatos, Petros Mavromichalis, George Hamilton D'Oyly Lyon, Thomas Fellowes, Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Louis Bols, Georgios Kountouriotis, Andreas du Plessis de Richelieu, Andreas Zaimis. Excerpt: Spanish-American War: Philippine-American War: Russo-Japanese WarMexican Revolution: World War I: John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing, GCB (Hon) (September 13, 1860 - July 15, 1948) was a general officer in the United States Army. Pershing is the only person to be promoted in his own lifetime to the highest rank ever held in the United States Army-General of the Armies (a retroactive Congressional edict passed in 1976 promoted George Washington to the same rank but with higher seniority). Pershing also holds the first United States officer service number (O-1). Pershing led the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, and was regarded as a mentor by the generation of American generals who led the United States Army in Europe during World War II, including George C. Marshall, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar N. Bradley, and George S. Patton. John Joseph Pershing was born on a farm near Laclede, Missouri, to businessman John Fletcher Pershing and homemaker Ann Elizabeth Thompson. He also had five siblings: sisters Ann Elizabeth, Margaret, and May; brothers Ward and James. When the Civil War began, John F. Pershing worked as a sutler for the 18th Missouri Volunteer Infantry, but he did not serve in the military. John J. Pershing attended a school in Laclede that was reserved for precocious students who were also the children of prominent citizens. Completing high school in 1878, he became a teacher of local African American children. In 1880, Pershing entered the North Missouri Normal School (now Truman State University) in Kirksville, Missouri. Two years later, he applied to the United States Military Academy. Pershing later admitted that serving in the military was secondary to attending West Point, and he had applied because the education offered was better than that obtainable in rural Missouri. Cadet Pershing in 1886 Pershing was sworn in as a West Point cadet in the fall of 1882. He was selected early for leadership and became successively First Corporal, First Serg