There was no
bustle, no confusion. Orderlies pored over papers and presented
reports quietly. The commander looked them over with keen appraising
glance, then issued orders without raising his voice. But that very
quietness and precision pronounced the doom of Germany. It was a
triumph of science over brute force.
If in America we have had a "schoolmaster in politics," the French have
had a "schoolmaster in war"--one who taught the Hun a lesson!
IMPORTANT DATES IN FOCH'S LIFE
1851. October 2. Ferdinand Foch born.
1862. Entered school, Tarbes, France.
1867. Entered Jesuit College of St. Michel.
1870. Volunteered in the Franco-Prussian War, but saw no service.
1871. Entered the Polytechnic Academy.
1873. Second-lieutenant in artillery.
1878. Captain. Married Julie Bienvenue.
1885. Entered Ecole de Guerre, a college for staff officers.
1891. Major in artillery.
1900. Lieutenant-colonel. Professor in Ecole de Guerre.
1905. Director of Ecole de Guerre.
1914. General, in command 20th corps.
1917. Chief of general staff.
1918. Commander-in-chief of Allied forces.
1918. Marshal of France.
PERSHING
THE LEADER OF AMERICA'S BIGGEST ARMY
It was a historic moment, on that June day, in the third year of the
World War.
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