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Ferdinand Foch

1851 - 1929

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Ferdinand Foch ( FOSH, French: [fɛʁdinɑ̃ fɔʃ]; 2 October 1851 – 20 March 1929) was a French general, Marshal of France and a member of the Académie Française and Académie des Sciences. He distinguished himself as Supreme Allied Commander on the Western Front during the First World War in 1918. A commander during the First Marne, Flanders and Artois campaigns of 1914–1916, Foch became Supreme Allied Commander in late March 1918 in the face of the all-out German spring offensive. He successfully coordinated the French, British and American efforts, deftly handling his strategic reserves. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ferdinand Foch is the 76th most popular military personnel (down from 64th in 2019), the 300th most popular biography from France (down from 252nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular French Military Personnel.

Ferdinand Foch was a French military commander who is most famous for overseeing the Allied victory in World War I.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Ferdinand Foch ranks 76 out of 2,058. Before him are Yi Sun-sin, Walter Model, T. E. Lawrence, Stanislav Petrov, Erich Raeder, and Hasdrubal Barca. After him are Michel Ney, Eli Cohen, Günther von Kluge, Albrecht von Wallenstein, Nero Claudius Drusus, and Tadeusz Kościuszko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1851, Ferdinand Foch ranks 1. After him are Olga Constantinovna of Russia, Arthur Evans, Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, Empress Myeongseong, George Francis FitzGerald, Léon Bourgeois, Louise of Sweden, Emile Berliner, Margherita of Savoy, Ismail Gaspirali, and Peder Severin Krøyer. Among people deceased in 1929, Ferdinand Foch ranks 4. Before him are Karl Benz, Georges Clemenceau, and Richard Adolf Zsigmondy. After him are Gustav Stresemann, Wilhelm Maybach, Herman Hollerith, Charles Cooley, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Bernhard von Bülow, Prince Maximilian of Baden, and Sergei Diaghilev.

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In France

Among people born in France, Ferdinand Foch ranks 300 out of 6,770. Before him are Jules Massenet (1842), Georges Méliès (1861), Carlo Buonaparte (1746), François Quesnay (1694), Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy (1383), and Charles Fourier (1772). After him are Alfred Werner (1866), Urbain Le Verrier (1811), Claude Lorrain (1600), Oscar I of Sweden (1799), Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1845), and Victor Grignard (1871).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Ferdinand Foch ranks 9. Before him are Charles XIV John of Sweden (1763), Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663), Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757), Alfred Dreyfus (1859), Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan (1611), and Eugène de Beauharnais (1781). After him are Theodor Eicke (1892), Louis-Nicolas Davout (1770), Jean-de-Dieu Soult (1769), André Masséna (1758), Joseph Joffre (1852), and Jean Lannes (1769).

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