On this day 107 years ago, on March 26, 1918 (February 14, 1918 lunar calendar), the French general Foch was appointed to take command of the Allied forces. General Ferdinand Foch On March 26, 1918, General Ferdinand Foch, chief of the French Army General Staff, was appointed commander of the British and French forces on the Western Front. On March 25, Foch held consultations with Prime Minister Clemenceau and French military leaders in Compiègne. They were facing the recent attack by the German 7th Army on the Oise River. Foch argued: "Faced with the danger of rupture of the Allied front, we must exercise unified command over all the troops on the Western Front." Others at the meeting elected Foch to coordinate the actions of the Allied forces on the Western Front. Foch, 66, commanded battles in the Marne and Somme regions.