Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1918 — General Foch’s Great Army Numbers Seven Million Men. [ARTICLE]

General Foch’s Great Army Numbers Seven Million Men.

General Foch commands the largest single army under one man in all history, observes a writer in the Philadelphia Telegraph;The French have under arms nearly 4.000,000 meq. The English «(¥my in France is at least half of that. America, 1,000,000 men on the battle front. There will be 7.000,000 men under General Foch on one front and moving In the same direction. Hindenburg does not have that many on any one line or in any one army. Napoleon’s largest army was 600,000, and he never had over 1,000,000 soldiers in uniform in his empire. Grant had 1,000,000 under his command during the last year of the Civil war. Wellington’s largest army was under 100,000. Von Moltke did not have in any one army in the Franco-Prussian war a quarter of the troops now obeying the commands of Hindenburg.