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“ ”Mon centre cède, ma droite recule. Situation excellente, j'attaque.
About Ferdinand Foch
Marshal Ferdinand Jean Marie Foch (2 October 1851 – 20 March 1929) was a French general and Marshal of France, Great Britain and Poland, a military theorist and the Allied Supreme Allied Commander during the final year of the First World War.
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Additional quotes by Ferdinand Foch
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack.
The truth is, no study is possible on the battlefield. One does there simply what one can in order to apply what one knows. Therefore, in order to do even a little, one has already to know a great deal, and to know it well.