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Mar 27, 2019 · 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.
May 28, 2016 · Surprisingly, the answer’s yes and it’s an extraordinary contrast: Earl Haig as the country saw him in the years after the war and Earl Haig as he is seen now after decades in which his...
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig commanded the British Army when it achieved arguably its greatest victories, those over the Germans on the Western Front. But for many his leadership was marked by unacceptable losses.
Feb 5, 2013 · Douglas Haig, Britain’s First World War commander-in-chief from December 1915 to the end of the war, is remembered as the archetypal ‘donkey’ leading ‘lions’ to their death by the thousands. But, almost a century on, is this a fair judgement? Born in Edinburgh, 19 June 1861, Douglas Haig was the eleventh son of a wealthy whiskey ...
Nov 7, 2018 · Field Marshal Douglas Haig was British senior officer during World War One. For his funeral at Westminster Abbey - one of the earliest state occasions broadcast live by the BBC - a million people...
The reputation of Scottish World War One leader Douglas Haig has been controversial but it is finally being recovered from the ruins by historians.
Douglas Haig © Haig was British commander on the Western Front for most of World War One. The huge casualties that his military strategy produced has made him a controversial figure. Douglas...
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