" J. Patton of The Bent Cover praised Jeter for " try to emulate Philip K. Dick ", adding, " This book also has all the grittiness and dark edges that the movie showed off so well, along with a very fast pace that will keep you reading into the wee hours of the night.

He also had to skillfully manage to retain the services of the often unruly George S. Patton, by severely reprimanding him, when Patton earlier had slapped a subordinate and then when Patton gave a grossly errant speech.

He then moved to Lula, Mississippi, where he first met Charlie Patton and Willie Brown ( around this same time, he also met Robert Johnson ).

Running back Ricky Patton was the top rusher on the team with 543 yards and 4 touchdowns, while also catching 27 passes for 195 yards.

He was on the U. S. 1912 Olympic pentathlon team and also designed the U. S. Cavalry's last combat saber: the " Patton Saber " ( the M-1913 ).

John M. Patton and Isaac Patton, also his great uncles, were colonels in the Confederate States Army.

He led an expedition that was ostensibly for the purpose of foraging to obtain corn ( maize ) for the horses in the remaining force, but Patton used it also to hunt outlaws at their rancheros.

Patton was also promoted to lieutenant general.

Patton noted his response in his diary, " I told Bradley that it was probably an exaggeration, but in any case to tell the Officer to certify that the dead men were snipers or had attempted to escape or something, as it would make a stink in the press and also would make the civilians mad.

This decision was not based on the slapping incident alone, but also on confirmed intelligence that the Germans believed Patton would be leading the Allied assault into Nazi-held territory.

While Patton had many detractors in the press, he also received praise from others, including a tribute from a UPI writer who wrote, " Gen. George S. Patton believed he was the greatest soldier who ever lived.

" There was also a major controversy when Patton declared, perhaps not entirely seriously, that the surrendered German soldiers in allied control should be rearmed and sent to fight the Soviets as well.

There are also unsubstantiated claims that Patton was seen at a few instances saluting German POWs and also berating some for slouching around rather than training for military action, thus indicating he hoped to get them back into action as soon as possible against the Soviets.

Patton also reassured Eisenhower that the two men's professional relationship was unaffected.

Eisenhower is also credited with giving Patton a command in France, after other powers in the Army had relegated Patton to various unimportant duties in England.

It was in France that Patton found himself in the company of another former subordinate, Omar Bradley, who had also become his superior.

* Alliance-Previously known as Bristol and also known as Jugtown, it is located on County Road 214 north of Patton about a mile off Highway 51.

Pike County is also home to Paul E. Patton, former governor of Kentucky.

They had three children, Beatrice Smith ( March 19, 1911 – October 24, 1952 ), Ruth Ellen Patton Totten ( February 28, 1915 – November 25, 1993 ), who wrote The Button Box: A Loving Daughter's Memoir of Mrs. George S. Patton, and George Patton IV ( December 24, 1923 – June 27, 2004 ), who followed in his father's footsteps, attending West Point and eventually rising to the rank of Major General as an armor officer in the United States Army.

Upon his return, Patton wrote a report that was revised for the Army and Navy Journal.

During his time in Hawaii, Patton was part of the military units responsible for the defense of the islands, and specifically wrote a defense plan, called " Surprise ", anticipating an air raid against Pearl Harbor – 10 years before the attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy on December 7, 1941.

However, public reaction was largely sympathetic to Patton, and Herman F. Kuhl, Private Kuhl's father, even wrote his own congressman, stating that he forgave Patton for the incident and requesting that he not be disciplined.

" Patton had a keen eye for native customs and methods, wrote knowingly of local architecture, even rated the progress of word-of-mouth rumor in Arab country at a day.

Screenwriters Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North wrote most of the film based on two biographies, General Bradley's A Soldier's Story and Ladislas Farago's Patton: Ordeal and Triumph.

* Patton wrote much material, including speeches, lectures, and poetry.

Screenwriters Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North wrote most of the film based on two biographies, Bradley's A Soldier's Story and Patton: Ordeal and Triumph by Ladislas Farago.

Charlie Patton, Bessie Smith, Barbecue Bob, and many other blues musicians wrote songs about the flood.

Singer / songwriter Ben Patton wrote and recorded a song named " Timon of Athens " in 2006 which is included on his album Because the Heart.

" Patton noted in his diary that Fredendall was “ Very nice, conducted himself well – very well .” In a letter to his wife Beatrice that day, Patton even wrote that “ Fredendall is a great sport, and I feel sure, is a victim largely due to circumstances beyond his control .” However, only a week later, after an initial inspection of his new command, Patton had completely changed his mind: " I cannot see what Fredendall did to justify his existence.

In early August Patton wrote in his diary, " I cannot make out why Middleton was so apathetic or dumb.

On 25 April 1945 Patton wrote a recommendation, citing Middleton's " outstanding tactical skill and determination ," his " magnificent resistance against ... Von Rundstadt's attack ," and his " tireless energy and unfaltering aggressiveness.

" Phil Patton of the New York Times wrote, " In theory, the Tomahawk can blast from a standing start to 60 miles an hour in two and a half seconds and reach 300 miles an hour.

Tracy had a professional partner, the ex-steel worker Pat Patton.

It was during Drum's posting in Hawaii that he renewed acquaintance with another ambitious officer, George S. Patton, with whom he had a contentious professional relationship.

The General George Patton Museum of Leadership seeks to inspire visitors to develop their own sense of good leadership, both professional and personal, strengthen the bonds of the Army, Fort Knox, and surrounding communities, foster interest in military history, and deepen the understanding of past choices and future possibilities.

Despite these limitations, ( most the result of an unfortunate tendency to speak his mind ) he almost always achieves his objectives and enjoys the professional respect of the fearsome Confederate General Patton.

Demands for Patton to be relieved and sent home were made in Congress and in news articles and editorials across the country.

Accompanied by a “ concentrated multiplatform promotional campaign " that included articles in Nickelodeon's magazine and on their webpage, an arc of three episodes introduced Burns ' replacement Donovan Patton, who played Steve's brother Joe.

" Love and Theft is, as the title implies, a kind of homage ," writes Kot, " never more so than on ' High Water ( for Charley Patton ),' in which Dylan draws a sweeping portrait of the South's racial history, with the unsung blues singer as a symbol of the region's cultural richness and ingrained social cruelties.

* In 2011, Paula Patton, Laz Alonso, and Angela Bassett star in the film Jumping the Broom, wherein two very different families converge on Martha's Vineyard one weekend for a wedding.

Shortly after the release of Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( 1975 ), Eric Idle flippantly suggested that the title of the Pythons ' forthcoming feature would be Jesus Christ – Lust for Glory ( a play on the UK title for the 1970 American film Patton ).

* December 21 – General George S. Patton dies from injuries sustained in a car accident on December 9.

The future General Patton married Beatrice Banning Ayer ( January 12, 1886 – September 30, 1953 ), the daughter of wealthy textile baron Frederick Ayer, on May 26, 1910.

In the summer of 1913, after he advised the Ordnance Department on sword redesign, Patton was allowed to return to Saumur to study once again under Cléry.

Shortly after his arrival at Champlieu, the British launched what was then the largest armoured attack of the war at the Battle of Cambrai, and at the conclusion of his tour, on December 1, Patton went to Albert, from Cambrai, to be briefed on the recent attack by the chief of staff of the British Tank Corps, Colonel J. F. C. Fuller.

Patton received his first ten tanks on March 23, 1918 at the Tank School and Centre, which he commanded, at Langres, Haute-Marne département.

On September 26, 1918, Patton was wounded in the left leg while leading six men and a tank in an attack on German machine guns near the town of Cheppy during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.

While on duty in Washington, D. C., in 1919, Patton met Dwight D. Eisenhower, who would play an enormous role in Patton's future career.

In response to a question on whether the Third Army's rapid offensive across France should be slowed to reduce the number of U. S. casualties, Patton replied " Whenever you slow anything down, you waste human lives.

In November 1942, Major General Patton commanded the Western Task Force of the U. S. Army, which landed on the coast of Vichy French-held Morocco in Operation Torch for the North African Campaign.

On August 3, Patton was visiting wounded patients from the recent Sicilian campaign at the 15th Evacuation Hospital near Nicosia when he encountered 27-year-old Private Charles H. Kuhl of the 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, sitting slouched on a stool midway through a tent ward filled with injured soldiers.

Although the Kuhl incident received the most publicity, Patton slapped and berated a second soldier, Private Paul G. Bennett of C Battery, 17th Field Artillery, 1st Infantry Division, under similar circumstances on August 10, 1943 at the 93rd Evacuation Hospital.

Following the Normandy invasion, Patton was placed in command of the U. S. Third Army, which was on the extreme right ( west ) of the Allied land forces.

" Patton then clarified that he had already worked up an operational order for a counterattack by three full divisions on December 21, then only 48 hours away.

In all, Patton would reposition six full divisions ( including his 3rd and 12th Army Corps ) from their positions on the Saar front along a line stretching from Bastogne to Diekirch to Echternach.

" When the weather cleared soon after, Patton awarded O ' Neill a Bronze Star on the spot.