Word: foche
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...Dramatic Adolf Hitler officially received the French surrender in: 1. The village where Marshal Foch was buried. 2. Railroad car where Foch received German surrender in 1918. 3. Fontainebleau, where Napoleon abdicated in 1814. 4. Versailles, where German Empire began in 1871. 5. Dugout where he was wounded in World...
...three French gunboats taken by the British after the fall of France) arrived at Dakar, they got the surprise of their lives. The commander dispatched two airplanes ashore with an invitation to surrender. The planes did not return. General de Gaulle and some aides-including Captain Bécourt Foch, grandson of the late Marshal-boarded a launch and made for the basin, waving a white flag and a tricolor. They were greeted by gunfire, and two aides were wounded. General de Gaulle boarded his flagship and signaled an ultimatum. Dakar rejected it. From Vichy, Minister of the Navy Admiral...
Italian strategy was not the German one of fanning and pinching mechanized columns. There was only one Italian drive. The Italian commander, Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, used Foch's plan of "applying superior force at one point." From Fort Capuzzo in Libya (see map}), fortnight ago, started the Italian spearhead-a long thin line of light Fiat tanks in Indian file, three infantry regiments, including many blacks, a machine-gun battalion, a company equipped with mortars, an artillery regiment with heavier 10-centimetre Ansaldos and Vickers 15.2s, two sapper companies with well-drilling and road-building equipment...
...Foch: "Then please sit down and I will read the conditions of the Allies...
...Henry Fleming of California, who received the Légion d'Honneur for his beneficence) and rolled it down the track to the spot where Adolf Hitler wanted it for reasons of historical drama. Through the dusty windows the correspondents peered, saw Hitler sit down in the chair Foch had used, before a statue of the Marshal. At his right and left sat Göring and Keitel; at one end of the table Brauchitsch and Hess; at the other end Raeder and Ribbentrop. The far side of the table was empty, with four vacant chairs waiting...