Patton Claimed Millennia Of Warfare

American World War II general George S. Patton believed in reincarnation and claimed that he had fought in wars for thousands of years. He believed his past lives included a Roman legionary under Julius Caesar, an English knight in the Hundred Years' War, and a French marshal under Napoleon. During World War I in France, Patton wrote to his mother that a Roman road felt familiar and wondered whether he had once led a legion along it or stormed a nearby chateau during the Middle Ages. He summarized his belief in a poem: "I fought in many guises, many names, but always me."

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