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Ferdinand Foch (/ f ɒ ʃ / FOSH, French: [fɛʁdinɑ̃ fɔʃ]; 2 October 1851 [1] – 20 March 1929) [2] was a French general, Marshal of France and a member of the Académie Française and Académie des Sciences.
Foch (French pronunciation:) was the second Clemenceau-class aircraft carrier that served with the French Navy from 1963 to 2000. The carrier was the second warship named in honour of the Marshal of France, British Field Marshal and Marshal of Poland Ferdinand Foch.
However, Marshall Ferdinand Foch, France's most famous soldier during the First World War died on 29 March 1929 one month before her launch. She was then renamed Foch in his honour. The main gun turrets were named after places that were associated with Marshall Foch during the Great War. [3]
The following is a list of aircraft carriers of France. Fifteen aircraft carriers have served the navy or been proposed since the 1910s. ... Foch (R99) 40 32,800 t ...
The Clemenceau-class aircraft carriers are a pair of aircraft carriers, Clemenceau and Foch, which served in the French Navy from 1961 until 2000. From 2000 to 2017, one ship served with the Brazilian Navy as the São Paulo. The Clemenceau class was France's first successful aircraft carrier design after World War II. It was the backbone of the ...
The Avenue Foch (French pronunciation: [avny fɔʃ]) is an avenue in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France, named after World War I Marshal Ferdinand Foch in 1929. It was previously known as the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne .
The Second Battle of the Marne was an important victory. Ferdinand Foch received the baton of a Marshal of France. The Allies had taken 29,367 prisoners, 793 guns and 3,000 machine guns and inflicted 168,000 casualties on the Germans. [13]
On 8 November 1918, Foch and representatives from the Allied Powers met representatives from the German Empire to discuss the terms of armistice in the then-called "Wagon of Compiègne". The agreement was signed in the carriage on 11 November, and was the final ceasefire which ended fighting in the First World War; the other Central Powers had ...