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When the German offensive at the Marne concentrated unexpectedly upon Le Petit Morin, the heights which General Foch had been assigned to defend with a pitiably small force, his brilliant "intuitive" maneuver of the 42nd Division from his left to his centre forced the enemy back and proved a paramount element in the French victory. Marshal Joseph Jacques Joffre, who had long realized the special capabilities of Ferdinand Foch, took this opportunity to send him as "Deputy Commander-in-Chief" to put himself in the closest touch with the British and Belgian commanders. His success in conciliating all with whom he had to deal led eventually to his appointment as Generalissimo and caused Mr. Lloyd George to say of him: "He could not have done more for us had he been one of our own generals."