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- Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (born June 19, , Edinburgh—died Jan. 29, , 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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| sir douglas haig good or bad | Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (born June 19, , Edinburgh—died Jan. 29, , London) 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. |
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Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig lived from 19 June to 29 January A professional solider, he was commander of the British forces in France and Belgium during the latter half of the First World War, and he remains a highly controversial figure. The wider picture in Scotland at the time is set out in our Historical Timeline.
Haig was born in Edinburgh, the son of John Haig, who ran the family's successful whisky distillery. He was educated at Clifton College, Bristol, and Brasenose College, Oxford, before joining the Army in and attending the Royal Military College at Sandhurst.
Douglas Haig was commissioned into the 7th (Queen's Own) Hussars in , being promoted rapidly to Lieutenant, then to Captain in He served with his regiment in India in , and first saw active service under Lord Kitchener in Sudan in Haig served in a number of positions during the Boer War, including as Chief Staff Officer to Major-General John French and as
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- Haig succeeded Field Marshal Sir John French as Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force on 19 December His period in command remains a much-debated subject among historians.
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- Douglas Haig () was a Scottish soldier who rose through the ranks of the British Army to the overall commander of the British Army on the Western Front during the later years of World War One.
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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 ().