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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. [1] [2] [3]
Juan Yagüe y Blanco, 1st Marquis of San Leonardo de Yagüe (9 November 1891 [1] – 21 October 1952) was a Spanish military officer during the Spanish Civil War, one of the most important in the Nationalist side.
Butcher of the Somme: Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (1861–1928), British First World War field marshal; Butcher of the Syria: Aleksandr Dvornikov (born 1961), Russian army general; Butcher of Uganda: Idi Amin (c. 1925–2003), President of Uganda and major general; Butcher of Warsaw: Josef Albert Meisinger (1899–1947), German SS officer
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
The Spanish Civil War (Spanish: guerra civil española) [note 2] was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the left -leaning Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic . [ 10 ]
Alexander Haig was married to Patricia (née Fox), with whom he had three children: Alexander Patrick Haig, Barbara Haig, and Brian Haig. [7] Haig's younger brother, Frank Haig , was a Jesuit priest and professor emeritus of physics at Loyola University in Baltimore, Maryland.
Spain's High Court on Monday ordered a temporary stop to exhumations of Spanish Civil War victims from a Francoist mausoleum after the granddaughter of one victim said the disinterment work could ...
List of foreign ships wrecked or lost in the Spanish Civil War; List of Spanish Civil War films; List of Spanish Civil War flying aces; List of Spanish Cross in Gold with Swords and Diamonds recipients; List of tanks in the Spanish Civil War; List of war films and TV specials: Spanish Civil War; Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War; Spain during ...