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Young patron: America's storied general began his fighting career in an Old West shootout with Pancho Villa's riders.(George S. Patton)
It was May 14, 1916. A bold 31-year-old second lieutenant, George S. Patton, Jr., was scouting the Mexican countryside for maize for the U.S. Army, which was pursuing Pancho Villa in the Punitive Expedition. He returned from the mission to purchase corn, however, with something other than a few ears of the Mexican staple. Strapped to the hood of his band's Dodge touring cars were the bodies of three Mexican bandits. One of them was General Julio Cardenas, leader of the Dorados, Villa's bodyguard. Patton's commander, Gen. John J. Pershing, had the singular experience of receiving the corpses of an enemy.
But something, Patton's biographer Carle D'Este writes in ...
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