Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1919 — General Foch Bom in 1851, Near the Spanish Border [ARTICLE]

General Foch Bom in 1851, Near the Spanish Border

Ferdinand Foch was born at Tarbes, France, near the Spanish border, in 1851. He was a subaltern in the Franco-Prussian war In 187(0, and in 1871 entered the Ecole Polytechnique. He served as an artillery officer until 1884 when he entered the Ecole de Guerre. Twelve years later he returned to the school as an instructor. In 1907 he was made a’brigadier general. He served In the war until April, 1917, when he retired from active service to become adviser of the war council, and was appointed generalissimo of th* allied forces March 29, 1918.