Ferdinand Foch, a French general during the First World War, fighting alongside Indian soldiers at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in 1915, spoke glowingly of them, many of whom died there. He told them: “Return to your homes in the distant, sun-bathed East and proclaim how your countrymen drenched with their blood the cold northern land of France and Flanders, how they delivered it by their ardent spirit from the firm grip of a determined enemy; tell all India that we shall wat