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          Maxwell D. Taylor

          Biography

          Maxwell Davenport Taylor was born in Keytesville, Missouri on August 26, 1904. Passionate at a very young age through military history and in particular by the American Civil War, he naturally headed for the career of arms.

          This brilliant student excels in languages ​​(he studied Greek, Latin, French and Spanish) and decides to present several competitions of officers: he fails at the Annapolis naval academy but passes the exam West Point Academy.

          Graduated with the rank of second lieutenant in 1922, it was as the youngest officer of his promotion that he turned to military engineering when he left school. In 1926, he was appointed to the artillery and then he moved a few years later to a career as a diplomat.

          Not wishing to leave the military institution, Maxwell Taylor is appointed professor of French and Spanish at West Point before joining Tokyo where he learns Japanese.

          If he was not appointed to the Japanese embassy, ​​he was transferred t