MILITARY PERSONNEL

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ferdinand Foch has received more than 2,339,998 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Ferdinand Foch is the 64th most popular military personnel (up from 70th in 2019), the 252nd most popular biography from France (up from 266th in 2019) and the 8th 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 64 out of 2,058. Before him are Ernst Röhm, Albrecht von Wallenstein, Miltiades, Seleucus I Nicator, Alfred Jodl, and Otto Skorzeny. After him are Stanislav Petrov, Fedor von Bock, Charles X Gustav of Sweden, Germanicus, Yevgeny Prigozhin, and Joseph Radetzky von Radetz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1851, Ferdinand Foch ranks 1. After him are Arthur Evans, Empress Myeongseong, Louise of Sweden, Emile Berliner, Ismail Gaspirali, Margherita of Savoy, Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, Olga Constantinovna of Russia, Georg Jellinek, Peder Severin Krøyer, and Léon Bourgeois. Among people deceased in 1929, Ferdinand Foch ranks 2. Before him is Karl Benz. After him are Georges Clemenceau, Gustav Stresemann, Wilhelm Maybach, Herman Hollerith, Bernhard von Bülow, Prince Maximilian of Baden, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Emile Berliner, Sergei Diaghilev, and Aby Warburg.

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In France

Among people born in France, Ferdinand Foch ranks 252 out of 6,770. Before him are Oscar I of Sweden (1799), Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732), Pope Callixtus II (1065), Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796), Honoré Daumier (1808), and Philip III of France (1245). After him are Pope Leo IX (1002), Georges Méliès (1861), Serge Gainsbourg (1928), Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (1810), Michel Platini (1955), and Rudolf Diesel (1858).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Ferdinand Foch ranks 8. Before him are Charles de Gaulle (1890), Charles XIV John of Sweden (1763), Eugène de Beauharnais (1781), Alfred Dreyfus (1859), Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663), and Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan (1611). After him are Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757), Theodor Eicke (1892), Louis-Nicolas Davout (1770), Jean Lannes (1769), André Masséna (1758), and Louis-Alexandre Berthier (1753).

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