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Hace 2 días · Much like John Gooch’s characterisation of Luigi Cadorna in his book on the Italian Army of the same series (also reviewed by this author), Greenhalgh draws a certain degree of attention to, and insight from, the experience of the well-known figures of Joseph Joffre, Philippe Pétain and Ferdinand Foch.
Hace 3 días · El Vagón 2439 D, fue acondicionado con elementos de uso personal del mariscal Ferdinand Foch y mobiliario original para evocar la firma del armisticio del 11 de noviembre de 1918. El vagón es de la misma serie del original y fue parte del mismo tren usado por el mariscal Foch en 1918.
Hace 3 días · Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1st Baronet, GCB, DSO (5 May 1864 – 22 June 1922) was one of the most senior British Army staff officers of the First World War and was briefly an Irish unionist politician.
Hace 1 día · In 1929 Pétain did not use de Gaulle's draft text for his eulogy for the late Ferdinand Foch, whose seat at the Academie Française he was assuming. The Allied occupation of the Rhineland was ending, and de Gaulle's battalion was due to be disbanded, although the decision was later rescinded after he had moved to his next posting.
Hace 1 día · The Wiemar Years” Chapter 1, 1918, Timeline of the Coup Editor’s Note: This is part two of the series composed by our good friend Sulla. Part II – Background, the Parties and People Author’s Note: previous (and future) entries have been primarily based on McDonough’s book “The Wiemar Years.” The next three entries include attempts at cross-checking and corroborating his account ...
Hace 3 días · Ferdinand Foch, maréchal de France. est un officier général français né à Tarbes le 2 octobre 1851 et mort à Paris le 20 mars 1929. A la déclaration de guerre contre l'Allemagne, en 1870, il s'engage au 4ème régiment d'infanterie de ligne. Il intègre ensuite l'école Polytechnique, dont il sort en 1873 comme officier d'artillerie.
Hace 2 días · At the Conference, Ferdinand Foch was appointed as Allied Generalissimo, initially with powers to co-ordinate and deploy Allied reserves where he saw fit. Pétain eventually came to the aid of the British and secured the front with forty French divisions.
