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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.
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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.
Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, KT, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCIE (/ h eɪ ɡ /; 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.
Oct 17, 2024 · Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (born June 19, 1861, Edinburgh—died Jan. 29, 1928, London) was a British field marshal, commander in chief of the British forces in France during most of World War I.
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Field Marshal, Sir Douglas Haig, commander of the British Expeditionary Force, 1918. See object record. Haig served under Sir John French on the staff of the Cavalry Division in South Africa during the Second Anglo-Boer War.
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.
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...
