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Patton’s First Two Notches

by | Aug 6, 2009 | Inside History

George S. Patton & Co. vs. Julio Cardenas & Co. 
May 14, 1916 Second Lt. George S. Patton and his force, riding in Dodge touring autos, approach the San Miguelito Ranch from the south, appropriately at high noon. Patton positions two carloads—eight soldiers and a guide—at the southern wall around the hacienda and its two gates. He and the remaining two soldiers and a guide park their car northwest of the


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