A 17-gun salute welcomed Marshal Ferdinand Foch, supreme Allied commander in the recent world war, to Spokane. The cannons roared out from Fort Wright, and thousands of people lined the downtown ...
Ferdinand Foch (pronounced "Fosh") OM GCB (2 October 1851 – 20 March 1929) was a French soldier, military theorist, and writer credited with possessing "the most original and subtle mind in the French ...
Perhaps no old man is so young as Marshal Ferdinand Foch. At 75, and after shouldering burdens at least as great as those which have fallen upon any other mortal, he remains unscathed of soul, brisk ...
The life of a forgotten First World War character. By Allan Mallinson In last week’s NS political column, George Eaton compared Ed Miliband’s strategy following his fightback speech of 13 November to ...
The life of a forgotten First World War character. By Allan Mallinson In last week’s NS political column, George Eaton compared Ed Miliband’s strategy following his fightback speech of 13 November to ...
THE most tremendous moment in the life of Ferdinand Foch came on the night of July 14, 1918. He was waiting for the enemy attack to begin. It meant so much, the precise moment of that attack. It meant ...
It is known in France how to honor even the greatest of heroes, not by many words, but with a few deeds less cheap. During the two days and nights that Marshal Ferdinand Foch lay in state, last ...
One of my favourite quotations is from French General Ferdinand Foch. In the desperate opening months of the First World War, as his forces struggled to block the road to Paris, he signalled to his ...
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