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Guide to Daily Reading | 3/28/30

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On this day in 1918 Foch was made Commander of Allied Armies.

Who knew? That infallible source:

Ferdinand Foch (French: [fɔʃ]; 2 October 1851 – 20 March 1929) was a French general and military theorist who served as the Supreme Allied Commander during the First World War. An aggressive, even reckless commander at the First Marne, Flanders, and Artois campaigns of 1914–1916, Foch became the Allied Commander-in-Chief in late March 1918 in the face of the all-out German spring offensive, which pushed the Allies back using fresh soldiers and new tactics that trenches could not contain. He successfully coordinated the French, British and American efforts into a coherent whole, deftly handling his strategic reserves. He stopped the German offensive and launched a war-winning counterattack.[3] In November 1918, Marshal Foch accepted the German cessation of hostilities and was present at the armistice of 11 November 1918.

GDR 3/28/20

I am going to spend exactly five minutes wandering around my crappy old poetry books and books about authors looking for Burr. … Making progress. Twentieth Century Authors: A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature (1942) has pointed me to Anna Robeson Brown Burr.

It is most likely she, but I can’t find the poem (?) “Fall In.” That title is not among her novels’ titles.

And time’s up.

Stay well and keep reading!

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  1. If I have my information correct, my grandfather came from Strasburg, also called Strouszgbourg (in German, that sz is combined as one letter), located in what’s called the Alsace-Lorraine. I don’t know how big it is in the sense of comparing it to US states, but it has the misfortune of being located between France and Germany and apparently being either very desirable, or just in the way. Apparently they’ve never been able to draw a line down the middle of it and giving part to one country and the other half to the other country, but instead it has been French in one century and German in another century. My grandfather was born in 1872 (I have his christening cup), but I don’t know when he came to the USA. I know he married my grandmother in 1905 in the USA, but I don’t know more. I also don’t know if he left as French or German since WWI hadn’t occurred yet and I don’t know which country possessed it when he left. He died before I was born, and my Mom never told me much about him.
    Guess I need to study more about European history, but it seems like we ran out of school year when it got to relatively modern (as opposed to middle ages etc) times. Sometimes I’ve thought that we need to start history from present and work backwards…!

    1. That’s an interesting idea– working backwards. I know next to nothing about one of my grandfathers as well. My mom knows European history really well. Especially German history, writ large.

      1. Working backwards….
        WHY did so and so do such and such…could lead to interesting answers!

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