Western Movies
The Western genre is set in the American West (trans-Mississippi including Mexico and Canada) during the time period from 1803 to 1915, though the end of the American Civil War in 1865 to the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890 is more common. Read more
How General Patton and Some Unlikely Allies Saved the Prized Lipizzaner Stallions
May 7, 1945, was an important day by any measure.
For Gen. George S. Patton, it started early, with a call just after 4 a.m. from Gen. Omar Bradley, who said, “Ike just called me, George. The Germans have surrendered.” This was mixed news to Patton, who was convinced the war was ending too soon, leaving the Russians as a future threat and, in any case, leaving Patton, a man who lived to fight, without a war. “Peace is going to be hell on me,” he had complained to his wife, Beatrice, four days earlier. 
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