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Ferdinand Foch
Foch, Ferdinand
Foch, Ferdinand (1851–1929) French general. He strongly supported the use of offensive warfare, which resulted in many of his 20th Corps being killed by German machine guns in August 1914. He became Supreme Commander of all Allied Forces on the Western Front in early 1918, and served as the senior French representative at the Armistice negotiations.
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Ferdinand Foch knew Versailles would lead to war
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 9/27/2009; ; 638 words
; This week (Oct. 2) in 1851 marks the birth of Ferdinand Foch, the supreme commander of the Allied armies at the end...one saw the flaws of Versailles more clearly than did Foch, who, after reading its terms, exclaimed, "This...
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 "Sunday Business (London, England)")
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IN 1911, Marshal Ferdinand Foch, France's leading military strategist, declared: "Aeroplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." Thirty years later, a similar wayward prediction came from Vanneyar Bush, director of America's scientific effort in the second world war. "A 3,000-mile range rocket, shot from one continent to the other carrying an atomic bomb?
Newspaper article from: Sunday Business (London, England); 6/23/2002; 700+ words
; IN 1911, Marshal Ferdinand Foch, Frances leading military strategist, declared: Aeroplanes are...make the timetable look optimistic. History may have proved both Foch and Bush wrong; but until ABL is operational, Tellers dream remains...
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Ex-Hollinger official: Give me my stuff back: Authorities impounded a photo of his dad, Black says
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 2/11/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...also include a bust of Marshal Ferdinand Foch -- a French military commander...interest in historical figures like Foch dates back to his childhood, when...suntimes.com CONRAD'S HERO Marshal Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929) led the Allied...
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Extreme grapegrowing at Recline Ridge.(Recline Ridge Vineyards, Tappen, BC)(Company Profile)
Magazine article from: Wines & Vines; 6/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...the better-known reds, Marechal Foch, can be found in North American...French World War I hero Marshall Ferdinand Foch. Hardy to Zone 4, or approximately...as some Merlot that is used in a Foch blend and the occasional Gewurztraminer...
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 "Courier-News (Elgin, IL)")
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Hampshire: Fruit of the vine
Newspaper article from: Courier-News (Elgin, IL); 9/30/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...John has also been experimenting with Foch -- small, purple grapes used in to make...The French hybrid is named after Marshal Ferdinand Foch, the French commander during World War I. The Foch grapes have been tweaked from their French...
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+(via+Knight-Ridder%2fTribune+News+Service) "The Orange County Register (Santa Ana, Calif.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)")
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Compiegne, France, is the birthplace of Veterans Day.
Newspaper article from: The Orange County Register (Santa Ana, Calif.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service); 11/3/2003; 700+ words
; ...statue of the French field marshal, Ferdinand Foch, gazes down on a stone slab circled...delegation was dispatched to ask Foch, the top Allied commander, his...suffers, but it does not die." Foch looked up and replied with a dismissive...
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In Flanders Flooded Fields: Before Ypres There Was Yser.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...some (mainly French) historians that General Ferdinand Foch was "the man behind the idea of the Belgian...Based largely on a misreading of the diary of Foch's interpreter, Andre Tardieu [Avec Foch. Aout Novembre 1914, (1939)], this claim...
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Persico, Joseph E. Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918; World War I and Its Violent Climax.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 3/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...s surgeon without anesthesia find Ferdinand Foch remains the revanche-driven zealot...independent operational role over Foch's and Haig's objections, fare...argument, a shockingly high number of Foch's commanders pulled punches once...
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France being French.(The Providence Journal)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 2/12/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Saxons" since the Napoleonic wars _ or, at any rate, since John J. Pershing and Ferdinand Foch were squabbling over issues of prestige in World War I. Marshal Foch, whose countrymen lost 1.4 million souls defending the West against the Hun...
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Civilian leaders and wars they won.(BOOKS)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 7/7/2002; 700+ words
; ...without recruits, pay or rations." As Lincoln had his George B. McClellan, Georges Clemenceau had his Ferdinand Foch. Clemenceau endured Foch's criticisms which crossed the border into insubordination, but kept firm control of the strategic...
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Ferdinand Foch
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Ferdinand Foch The French marshal Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929) was commander in chief of the Allied armies in World War I. Ferdinand Foch was born on Oct. 2, 1851, at Tarbes. His early schooling...
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Foch, Ferdinand
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Foch, Ferdinand (1851–1929) French general. In World War I , he helped...Ypres (1915) and the Somme (1916) led to his dismissal. In 1917, Foch returned as chief of the French general staff. In April 1918, he became...
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Henri Philippe Pétain
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Between the World Wars Named marshal of France on Nov. 21, 1918, Pétain emerged from the war second only to Ferdinand Foch in prestige. It was only natural that Pétain was regarded as a high military authority, but the consequences...
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Tarbes
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...cent.), the churches of St. Jean and St. Thérèse (13th cent.), and the base of a tower of an old castle built by the counts of Bigorre. Théophile Gautier and Marshal Ferdinand Foch were born in Tarbes.
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Douglas Haig Haig, 1st Earl
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...under continual French pressure to take over more of the front, and until the joint command of himself and Gen. Ferdinand Foch was instituted (1918), the strategy and conduct of the war were tragically mismanaged. Haig has been much criticized...
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