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 ...
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 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 ...
Have you ever wondered how to pronounce Foch Street? Where did that name come from, anyway? We looked into it in honor of Throwback Thursday, or #tbt. Foch Street, originally Franklin Street, was ...
In 1910, Henry Wilson, the British army officer charged with planning for a possible war with Germany, visited the French ...