George S. Patton
George S. Patton
George S. Patton (1885–1945) was a United States Army general who commanded American forces in the Mediterranean and European theaters of the Second World War. From a family with a long military tradition, he graduated from West Point, competed in the modern pentathlon at the 1912 Olympic Games, designed the Army's last cavalry saber and was an early leader of American tank forces in the First World War. After commanding the Seventh Army in Sicily in 1943, he led the Third Army across France in 1944 in one of the fastest advances of the war. During the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944, he turned his army north to relieve the besieged town of Bastogne, having asked his chaplain to write a prayer for fair weather. He died in December 1945 after a road accident in Germany and is buried among his soldiers at the Luxembourg American Cemetery.
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America's Great Generals
George Washington commanded the Continental Army through the War of Independence. In the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant led the Union armies to victory, while Robert E. Lee commanded the Confederacy's Army of Northern Virginia. During the Second World War, Dwight D. Eisenhower served as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, and George S. Patton led the U.S. Third Army across France. Washington, Grant and Eisenhower each later became president.
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