| rdfs:comment | - Patton was born in a family of great military background that could trace its members serving as soldiers as far back as the American Revolution. His grandfather was a Confederate soldier that died at the 3rd Battle of Winchester, Va. at a place called Opequon Creek, in the American Civil War. Patton attended West Point, overcoming dyslexia, and became a cavalry officer, an Olympian, helping in the adoption of a new sword, and showing interest in motorized combat He was also one of the wealthiest men in the United States Army, which did not always go over well with his Superiors.
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| abstract | - Patton was born in a family of great military background that could trace its members serving as soldiers as far back as the American Revolution. His grandfather was a Confederate soldier that died at the 3rd Battle of Winchester, Va. at a place called Opequon Creek, in the American Civil War. Patton attended West Point, overcoming dyslexia, and became a cavalry officer, an Olympian, helping in the adoption of a new sword, and showing interest in motorized combat He was also one of the wealthiest men in the United States Army, which did not always go over well with his Superiors. He joined the US Army in 1909 as a cavalry officer. He was destined to Texas when Pancho Villa crossed the Mexican-American border in 1916 and raided Columbus, New Mexico, killing several Americans. The US president Woodrow Wilson ordered then a punitive expedition against Villa, headed by General John J. Pershing, and Patton joined it.
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