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Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (19 June 1861 – 29 January 1928) led the British Expeditionary Force during World War I.His reputation is still controversial. Although a popular commander during the immediate post-war years, [1] with his funeral becoming a day of national mourning, Haig also became an object of criticism for his leadership on the Western Fr
Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (/ 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.
The Earl Haig Memorial is a bronze equestrian statue of the British Western Front commander Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig on Whitehall in Westminster, London. It was created by the sculptor Alfred Frank Hardiman and commissioned by Parliament in 1928. Eight years in the making, it aroused considerable controversy; the Field Marshal's riding ...
There is controversy about the Doullens Conference because of various people's claims, primarily Haig's, that they deserve credit for uniting the Western Front. Upon Lord Milner's return from France on the evening of March 26, he was given official thanks by his peers on the war cabinet. [12] However, he never received public acknowledgment.
Arthur, Sir George Lord Haig (London: William Heinemann, 1928) De Groot, Gerard Douglas Haig 1861–1928 (Larkfield, Maidstone: Unwin Hyman, 1988) Harris, J.P. Douglas Haig and the First World War. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-521-89802-7; Marshall-Cornwall, General Sir James Haig as Military Commander (London ...
Kissinger hurries back to the State Department after meeting with Nixon (to the right with chief-of-staff Al Haig) after discussing the Yom Kippur War, which was raging in Israel in 1973. - David ...
Justice Robert H. Jackson, who had previously served as solicitor general, attorney general, and the chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals, thought Douglas and the ...
Sheffield also noted that "Melchett is an amalgam of Haig and John French and the other generals", so Haig effectively "appears twice". [19] The series, especially the storyline of "Goodbyeee", often depicts the " lions led by donkeys " perception of the War, an element of Blackadder Goes Forth that has been criticised by historians.