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Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, KT, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCIE ( / heɪɡ /; 19 June 1861 – 29 January 1928) was a senior officer of the British Army. During the First World War he commanded the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) on the Western Front from late 1915 until the end of the war. He was commander during the Battle of the Somme ...
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig was a British field marshal, commander in chief of the British forces in France during most of World War I. His strategy of attrition (tautly summarized as “kill more Germans”) resulted in enormous numbers of British casualties but little immediate gain in 1916–17 and
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Nov 7, 2018 · Field Marshal Haig was a national hero and was rewarded with the title of earl for leading Britain to victory. From the end of the war 100 years ago, until his death of a heart attack in 1928 ...
Field Marshal, Sir Douglas Haig, commander of the British Expeditionary Force, 1918. Haig served under Sir John French on the staff of the Cavalry Division in South Africa during the Second Anglo-Boer War. When the British Expeditionary Force went to war in August 1914, Haig commanded I Corps at Mons, the Marne, the Aisne and First Ypres.
Douglas Haig: The chief. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig commanded the British Army when it achieved arguably its greatest victories, those over the Germans on the Western Front during the First World War (1914-18). Under Haig, the British Empire engaged the main enemy in the main theatre of war and defeated it.
Mar 27, 2019 · Published: March 27, 2019 at 10:15 AM. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig has had the unenviable reputation of being the worst British general of all time, a bone-headed “donkey” who threw away the lives of his men in futile attacks. In many ways, the debate has now moved on from such stereotypes. Certainly, a revolution in the historiography ...
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Jun 7, 2021 · Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig was born in London on 19 June 1861. He served as British Field Marshal, Commander in Chief of the British Forces in France during the First World War. Although he is a controversial historical figure in many ways, he is remembered for founding the Royal British Legion Scotland on 18 June 1921.
