General Foch at the Marne
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Excerpt from General Foch at the Marne: An Account of the Fighting in and Near the Marshes of Saint-Gond M. Le Goffic´s book entitled Les Marais de Saint-Gond deals with the six days´ fighting which immediately succeeded the arrest of the French retreat, when the French soldiers were at last allowed to turn round and fight the all-conquering Germans, before whom, for strategic as well as for more obvious reasons, they had been forced to retreat during many bitter days and nights. Heavy sacrifices had been demanded of these men; "that even when victorious they should retreat, that they should hold partial successes as nothing, that they should possess their souls in patience... They had been told that they were making a strategic retreat. They believed it at first, but the more the retreat was prolonged, the more suspicion crept in... and in these last days their hearts had been sick within them at the thought of the great tracts of their own country they had been forced to cede to the enemy" - and that without striking a blow in their defence. An outstanding feature of the Battle of the Marne was General Foch´s masterly handling of the Ninth Army. Ferdinand Foch was born at Metz in 1852, and was therefore only a young student at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war. He was educated in Paris at the École Polytechnique - the Woolwich of France - and according to the law of the French Army, had to serve as a private before he could pass the examination qualifying for a commission. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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