I am attacking.” Foch made this declaration to the French commander-in-chief, Joseph Joffre, after his famed counterattack on the River Marne – known as “the Miracle of the Marne”. Foch, promoted a ...

For the last seven years of his life Marshal Ferdinand Foch ... of the character of the Allied Commander. Marshal Foch’s book, which in the French edition bears the more precise title of Memoirs ...

A plaque is to be unveiled later to an 18th Century French military commander in the South Uist village where his father was born. The memorial recalls Etienne Alexander MacDonald, a trusted member of ...