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| Armistice Foch, Ferdinand |  |
| Nov Compiegne Heads the Allied armistice negotiations with the Germans |
| Battle of Epehy Debeney, Marie-Eugene de | |
| 12th Sep Epehy Leads the 1st Army attack on the Hindenburg line after German defeats at Papua & Arras |
| 25th Sep Epehy The area is taken back into Allied hands |
| Battle of Flanders Degoutte, Jean Marie | |
| Flanders Albert I & Degoutte have operational command of the Allied forces |
| Battle of Marne, 1st Foch, Ferdinand | |
| 15th July Marne Mounts a counter-offensive along the Marne |
| Battle of Marne, 2nd Foch, Ferdinand | |
| 25th July Marne The Allies advance 2 miles |
| 25th July Marne The Allies capture Fere Forest, La Croise Range, Oulchy-le-Chateau & Villemontoire |
| 30th July Romigny The Allies capture Romigny-St Gemme |
| Capture of Montdidier Foch, Ferdinand | |
| 27th Mar Montdidier The French 3rd Army loses Montdidier |
| Capture of Montidier Debeney, Marie-Eugene de | |
| Aug Montidier Captures Montdidier & moves the line forward to the River Somme |
| Commander East Army Group Castelnau, Marie-Joseph Edouard de | |
| Appointed Commander of the Eastern Army Group |
| Commander in Chief Foch, Ferdinand | |
| 26th Mar Picardy Appointed Commander for Allied operations on the Western Front |
| Conference of Bombon Foch, Ferdinand | |
| 24th July Bombon Conference of all the commanders-in-chief to consider allied operations, all present proposals for the employment of allied armies |
| 24th July Bombon Decides to free the Paris -Verdun, Paris -Amiens & Verdun-Arricourt routes |
| Conference of Doullens Foch, Ferdinand | |
| 26th Mar Doullens Foch becomes the de facto Allied Generalissimo |
| Conference of Paris Clemanceau, Georges | |
| Paris Fails to secure the Rhine as a French frontier |
| Paris Presides over the peace conference which draws up the Treaty of Versailles |
| 18th Jan Paris Elected Chairman of the Peace Conference |
| Conscription Foch, Ferdinand | |
| 20th July Asks Clemenceau to call up the 1920 conscripts in 1918 |
| Dismissal Clemanceau, Georges | |
| 21st Oct Advocates the dismissal of Pershing |
| General in Chief Foch, Ferdinand | |
| 14th April Appointed General-in-Chief of the Allied Armies, extending his powers |
| 14th April Appointed General-in-Chief, extending his powers to "strategic direction" |
| Marshal Petain, Henri Philippe | |
| 8th Dec Metz Appointed Marshal of France |
| Mobilization Foch, Ferdinand | |
| July July-August, launches counter-attacks after the arrival of 300,000 Americans a month |
| Occupation Rhineland Poincare, Raymond | |
| 10th Dec Rhineland The AEF occupy the west bank of the Rhine |
| Offensive Meuse Argonne Foch, Ferdinand | |
| Meuse Argonne General advance along most of the Western Front, resulting in the German Army's final defeat and the signing of an armistice on November 11 to bring hostilities between the Allies and Central Powers to an end |
| Meuse Argonne Launched as part of Mar‚chal Ferdinand Foch's Grand Offensive, comprising attacks by the AEF and French Fourth Army on September 26, the British Fourth Army from September 27 and the British and Belgians at Ypres |
| Peace Clemanceau, Georges | |
| 18th April Discloses the peace offer made by Emperor Charles I |
| Peace Foch, Ferdinand | |
| Nov Compiegne Heads the Allied armistice negotiations with the Germans |
| Speech Clemanceau Clemanceau, Georges | |
| 4th June Paris Announces, "I shall fight before Paris ..." |
