[From The Book of Lists, Wallechinsky, Wallace and Wallace, 1977 edition]
Patton had "subconscious memories" of these previous incarnations:
1. A prehistoric warrior who "battled for fresh mammoth" and "warred for pastures new."
2. A Greek hoplite who fought the Persians of King Cyrus.
3. A soldier of Alexander the Great at the siege of Tyre.
4. A legionnaire with Julius Caesar in northern Gaul.
5. An English knight at the battle of Crécy during the Hundred Years' War.
6. A Napoleonic marshal at a time "when one laughed at death and numbers, trusting in the emperor's star."
–Farago, Ladislas, Patton: Ordeal and Triumph (New York: I. Obolensky, 1964).
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
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George Patton led an interesting life and had to explain to himself why we was such a great military leader. Canadu
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