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General George S. Patton and Martial Law, etc.

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FEDERAL TROOPS IN DOMESTIC DISTURBANCES By Major George S. Patton, Jr., Cavalry

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November 1932

When I was a cadet, all plebes were required to memorize the definition of leather, which, if time has not dulled my memory, ran thus, “If the fresh skin of an animal be divested of hair and other extraneous matter and be immersed in a saturated solution of tannic acid, chemical combinations occur which transform the hide into a fibrous tissue insoluble in and impervious to water; this is leather.”

Similarly, when the subject of this conference is immersed in the cerebral fluid of Regular Soldiers, it emerges not theory, but tactics……

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