Ferdinand Foch was born in 1851 in Tarbes. Ferdinand Foch, marshal of France, Great Britain and Poland, is an officer and member of the académie française French. He was the commander-in-chief of the allied forces on the Western front dur... (Full Biography Below)
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Ferdinand Foch was born in 1851 in Tarbes. Ferdinand Foch, marshal of France, Great Britain and Poland, is an officer and member of the académie française French. He was the commander-in-chief of the allied forces on the Western front during the First world War. During the Great War he was given command of the 20th corps of Nancy, belonging to the Second army of general de Castelnau. The 14août1914, during the battle of Lorraine, his body moved towards the Sarrebourg-Morhange, undergoing heavy losses. The rout of the 15th body to his right the binding, however, in retirement. Foch was able to manage the situation by covering the retreat to deliver the battle of the Great Crowned that covers Nancy. It prevents the Germans from crossing the Meurthe river, but, contrary to the orders of general de Castelnau, which requires the withdrawal general, the counter-attack on 20 August. It is fraught with violent fire of heavy artillery, and then to a German counter-attack which forces him to retreat, which cost the lives of 5,000 men. It is for this cult of the offensive that he was chosen to command the Ninth army during the battle of the Marne. It co-ordinates the british armies in france and belgium during the race to the sea. With the chief of staff, Maxime Weygand, Foch must manage the retreat of the Marne, as he had only just appointed to his post. It would have been these words remained famous : "Pressed strongly on my right, my center gives way, impossible for me to move, situation excellent, I attack. ". His counter-attack was put into practice ideas that he had developed as a teacher, she allowed him to put an end to the offensive of the German army. This success earned him a further promotion, and on October 4, 1914, he was appointed commander-in-chief deputy of the Northern area, with general Joffre. On 13 October, the Germans launched a new offensive, contained at the price of losses very heavy ; a situation which is repeated again at the first battle of Ypres. Each time, Foch manages to take out the French troops in very difficult situations. The origin of the battle of Artois in 1915 (192 000 dead or wounded French) and that of the Somme in 1916 (204 253 losses françaises10), he falls in disgrace provisional, result of bloody failures. In December 1916, general Joffre the reports to the command of the GAN (army group north), his doctrine of the offensive to the utmost, resulting in heavy losses to the French army. It is a signatory allies of the armistice of 1918, concluded in the clearing of Rethondes. It is elevated to the dignity of marshal of the United Kingdom and Poland, at the end of the First world War. On the day of the armistice, he was appointed to the Academy of sciences, and ten days later he was elected to the French Academy, to the chair no. 18.
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