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unusual facts about ''Foch''



1992 International Formula 3000 season

Both continued, but Montermini later crashed at the Foch statue.

Betty Mars

She died three weeks later, on 20 February in the Foch Hospital at Suresnes.

Charles Lanrezac

Coming after criticism of the British in the memoirs of Huguet and Foch, the book was a great success, Harold Nicolson writing that he had especially enjoyed the "satirical" portrait of the "conceit(ed) ... arrogant and obese" Lanrezac.

French cruiser Dupleix

While on patrol in the Atlantic with the destroyers, Le Fantasque and Le Terrible, she intercepted and captured the German freighter Santa Fé, on 25 October 1939, On 14 June 1940, Dupleix participated in the French raid on Genoa, with sister ships Foch and Colbert.

French cruiser Foch

On 14 June 1940, the French 1st cruiser division with Algérie, Foch and escorting destroyers bombarded Vado near Genoa.

Hermleigh, Texas

Hermleigh briefly changed its name in the late 1910s to Foch to honor the French field marshal and World War I hero Ferdinand Foch, but reverted to the original name shortly thereafter and continued to flourish until the early 1930s, when the effects of the Great Depression brought an end to Hermleigh's growth.

Jean Tirilly

He trained as a navy mechanic, enlisted in the Marine Nationale, and travelled the globe for a number of years aboard the Foch aircraft carrier.

Maréchal Foch

Marechal Foch, a hybrid red wine grape named after Ferdinand Foch

Marechal Foch

Marechal Foch was formerly commonly grown in the Loire, but today it is limited to a small number of hectares in Europe.

Marechal Foch is used to make a variety of styles of wine, ranging from a light red wine similar to Beaujolais, to more extracted wines with intense dark "inky" purple colour and unique varietal character, to sweet, fortified, port-style wines.

Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature

It honours the French general Ferdinand Foch, known as "Marshal Foch", who from April 1918 was supreme commander of the Allied forces.

The chair was endowed by an arms trader, Basil Zaharoff, in Foch's honour; he also endowed a post in English literature at the University of Paris in honour of the British general Earl Haig.

Ferdinand Foch, or "Marshal Foch", was supreme commander of Allied forces from April 1918 onwards.

Role of Douglas Haig in 1918

At the Doullens Conference (26 March), Haig accepted the appointment of Foch to coordinate reserves of all nationalities wherever he saw fit.


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