George S. Patton: Perbedaan antara revisi

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The Patton family was of [[Irish Americans|Irish]], [[Scotch-Irish Americans|Scots-Irish]], [[English people|English]], [[Scottish people|Scottish]], [[French people|French]] and [[Welsh people|Welsh]] ancestry. His great-grandmother came from an aristocratic Welsh family, descended from many Welsh lords of [[Glamorgan]],{{sfn|Axelrod|2006|p=13}} which had an extensive military background. Patton believed he had former lives as a soldier and took pride in mystical ties with his ancestors.<ref>{{cite book|author=Army Times|title=Warrior; the story of General George S. Patton|year=1967|publisher=Putnam|page=15}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Michael Keane|title=George S. Patton: Blood, Guts, and Prayer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=byMjBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA84|year=2014|publisher=Regnery |page=84|isbn=978-1-62157-298-5}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6_KcBQAAQBAJ&pg=PP3|title=Great Leaders: George Patton|publisher=New Word City|year=2014|pages=3–4|author1=Willard Sterne Randall|author2=Nancy Nahra|isbn=978-1-61230-622-3}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Jonathan W. Jordan|title=Brothers, Rivals, Victors: Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley and the Partnership that Drove the Allied Conquest in Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G001xz-FDhEC&pg=PT252|year=2011|publisher=Penguin|page=252|isbn=978-1-101-47524-9}}</ref> Though not directly descended from [[George Washington]], Patton traced some of his [[English-American|English colonial]] roots to George Washington's great-grandfather.{{sfn|Rice|2004|p=32}} He was also descended from England's [[Edward I of England|King Edward I]] through Edward's son [[Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent]].{{sfn|Rice|2004|p=32}} Family belief held the Pattons were descended from sixteen barons who had signed [[Magna Carta]].{{sfn|Rice|2004|p=32}} Patton believed in [[reincarnation]], stating that he had fought in previous battles and wars before his time, additionally, his ancestry was very important to him, forming a central part of his personal identity.<ref>21st Century Patton: Strategic Insights for the Modern Era edited by J. Furman Daniel III, p. 61.</ref> The first Patton in America was Robert Patton, born in [[Ayr]], [[Scotland]]. He emigrated to [[Culpeper, Virginia]], from [[Glasgow]], in either 1769 or 1770.{{sfn|D'Este|1995|p=9}} His paternal grandfather was [[George S. Patton Sr.|George Smith Patton]], who commanded the [[22nd Virginia Infantry Regiment|22nd Virginia Infantry]] under [[Jubal Early]] in the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] and was killed in the [[Third Battle of Winchester]], while his great-uncle [[Waller T. Patton]] was killed in [[Pickett's Charge]] during the [[Battle of Gettysburg]]. Patton also descended from [[Hugh Mercer]], who had been killed in the [[Battle of Princeton]] during the [[American Revolution]]. Patton's father, who graduated from the [[Virginia Military Institute]] (VMI), became a lawyer and later the [[district attorney]] of [[Los Angeles County]]. Patton's maternal grandfather was [[Benjamin Davis Wilson]], a merchant who had been the second [[Mayor of Los Angeles]]. His father was a wealthy rancher and lawyer who owned a {{convert|1000|acre|spell=in|adj=on}} ranch near [[Pasadena, California]].<ref name="Essame2008">{{cite book|author=Essame|title=Patton|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EeQ5CEeVPC4C&pg=PA2|date=November 10, 2008|publisher=Da Capo|page=2|isbn=978-0-7867-4305-6}}</ref>{{sfn|Zaloga|2010|p=6}} Patton is also a descendant of French Huguenot [[Louis DuBois (Huguenot)|Louis DuBois]].<ref>Bennett, Abram Elting. Huguenots migration: descendants' contributions to America. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1984. Page 109.</ref><ref>Patton, Robert H. The Pattons: A Personal History of an American Family. 1994, pages 3–5.</ref>