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1. Patton was an Olympic athlete.George s patton biography amazon
As a year-old Army cavalry officer, Patton was selected to compete in the first-ever Olympic modern pentathlon at the Summer Games in Stockholm. Of the 42 competitors, he finished in fifth place, although he might have medaled if not for a controversy in the pistol-shooting event.
While the judges believed Patton missed the target with one of his shots, he argued that he was so fine a marksman that one of his bullets actually traveled through a bullet hole he had already made. Patton was also selected to the Olympic team, but the Games were cancelled due to World War I.
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He believed in reincarnation.
Patton claimed he had seen combat many times before in previous lives, including as a Roman legionnaire and as part of the 14th-century army of John the Blind of Bohemia. Before the invasion of Sicily, British General Harold Alexander told Patton, “You know, George, you would have made a great marshal for Napoleon if you had lived in the 19th cen