George Thomas was a banker, and a friend of Duncan MacLeod's. He had retired and passed his days playing bocce and didn't like it, "One day you're changing your grandson's diapers, and the next thing you know he's managing your bank." He had a lot of time on his hands and he began thinking and reading, wondering if it were only good deeds that define a man's soul. After a game of bocce with MacLeod one morning, he was killed by a car bomb, and MacLeod discovered that he'd been being watched by Alex Raven.
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| - George Thomas was a banker, and a friend of Duncan MacLeod's. He had retired and passed his days playing bocce and didn't like it, "One day you're changing your grandson's diapers, and the next thing you know he's managing your bank." He had a lot of time on his hands and he began thinking and reading, wondering if it were only good deeds that define a man's soul. After a game of bocce with MacLeod one morning, he was killed by a car bomb, and MacLeod discovered that he'd been being watched by Alex Raven.
- George Henry Thomas (July 31, 1816 - March 28, 1870) was a career officer in the United States Army in the Antebellum period. Thomas was by birth a Virginian and a scion of a slave holding family; at the age of 15, he and his mother were forced to flee their home during Nat Turner's slave rebellion, which they barely escaped with their lives. Nevertheless, he elected to serve the U.S. government in the American Civil War, for which decision he was disowned by his mother and sisters. Among other things, they refused to accept gifts of money from him after much of their property was destroyed in the war, and did not attend his funeral.
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| - George Thomas was a banker, and a friend of Duncan MacLeod's. He had retired and passed his days playing bocce and didn't like it, "One day you're changing your grandson's diapers, and the next thing you know he's managing your bank." He had a lot of time on his hands and he began thinking and reading, wondering if it were only good deeds that define a man's soul. After a game of bocce with MacLeod one morning, he was killed by a car bomb, and MacLeod discovered that he'd been being watched by Alex Raven. She was in search of money deposited at the time of the Second World War by victims of the Holocaust. George's grandson, Grant Thomas, eventually revealed that he had his grandfather killed because the old man wanted to give back the money deposited by Jews during the war, the money Alex had been searching for.
- George Henry Thomas (July 31, 1816 - March 28, 1870) was a career officer in the United States Army in the Antebellum period. Thomas was by birth a Virginian and a scion of a slave holding family; at the age of 15, he and his mother were forced to flee their home during Nat Turner's slave rebellion, which they barely escaped with their lives. Nevertheless, he elected to serve the U.S. government in the American Civil War, for which decision he was disowned by his mother and sisters. Among other things, they refused to accept gifts of money from him after much of their property was destroyed in the war, and did not attend his funeral. Thomas attained the rank of major general during the Civil War. His finest hour came at the Battle of Chickamauga in the autumn of 1863, where he commanded XIV Corps, when he disobeyed orders to retreat and held against an overwhelming Confederate assault, allowing the defeated Army of the Cumberland to retreat in an orderly fashion rather than be routed. After the battle but before the subsequent Battle of Chattanooga which ended Braxton Bragg's offensive campaign, Thomas was promoted to commander of the Army of the Cumberland. Still in this capacity, he served as second-in-command to William Sherman during the Atlanta Campaign of the spring and summer of 1864. (Sherman's forces on this campaign consisted of the Armies of the Cumberland, the Ohio, and the Tennessee.) Following the fall of Atlanta, John Bell Hood broke away from the city and cut Sherman's lines of communication. Sherman elected to lead most of his force campaigning in a northeasterly direction without being in contact with his superiors (his storied March to the Sea), but he dispatched Thomas northwest to engage Hood with a small force consisting of IV Corps, XXIII Corps, and four divisions of cavalry. Thomas and Hood raced for the city of Nashville, Tennessee, where Thomas was to receive reinforcements. Thomas dealt Hood crippling losses at the Battles of Franklin and Nashville in December 1864, effectively destroying the last Confederate army remaining in the field. After the war, Thomas was given several assignments as military governor of various occupied secessionist territories. In these capacities he aggressively protected freedmen from abuse, suppressed the Ku Klux Klan, and set up commissions to arbitrate labor disputes on the grounds that the local courts were not capable of ruling impartially. In 1869 he requested a transfer and was named commander of the Division of the Pacific, commanding US Army forces on the West Coast. The following year he died of a stroke at his headquarters in the Presidio of San Francisco while writing a letter defending his reputation against a political rival.
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