Does field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig deserve the name ‘The Butcher of the Somme’? The battle of the Somme took place in 1916 and was Haig’s idea. He wanted to draw enemy troops away from the battle at Verdun to give the allies a better chance of victory. Haig’s tactic was to send troops over the top to attack the German trenches and end the stalemate. Before the troops were sent over the top there would be severe artillery bombardment of the enemy trenches. This was designed to damage or destroy
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friends had died for little or no gain. It would have been valuable to historian who wanted to find out what WW1 veterans thought about Haig. Source E shows us a picture with a caption saying “A spontaneous welcome from the crowd at Victoria: Sir Douglas Haig’s car leaving the station.
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Somewhere in France Somewhere in France Dear Mother‚ March 1 It’s been months since I last wrote a letter to you – and that was when I was still a trainee. I’m really joyful and thankful that I had the chance to receive your letter before winter. I terribly miss you and I hope I did not make you worry. The censorship is still being done; but I am grateful that I was able to send a letter earlier than expected. Right now‚ I’m writing in a nearby casualty clearing station – recovering
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Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig: World War I’s Worst General Even so‚ a staff colonel had the cheek to write: "The events of July 1st bore out the conclusions of the British higher command and amply justified the tactical methods employed." Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig‚ chief of staff of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and architect of the battle‚ evidently agreed. On the day after the debacle‚ stating that the enemy "has undoubtedly been shaken and has few reserves in hand‚" he discussed
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AFAS/SOC 220-001 Fall 2012: Intro into African American Studies Tatum Armitage 4 October 2012 Essay #1 Slaves In history‚ slavery has been a large problem in The United States and has caused many issues. We know slavery as history‚ while people like Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs knew slavery as their lives. Frederick Douglass was a man who was born and raised as a slave‚ he never knew his mother and watched many terrifying things as a child. Another known slave was Harriet Jacobs;
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organizations are forming and laws are stiffening in efforts to put an end to it. Some people‚ however‚ believe that it is not as serious a crime as America is making it out to be. They also believe that harsher punishments are not the solution. Douglas Husak puts forth an argument that stresses why he believes drunk driving is not a serious offense and should not warrant jail time for the offender‚ while Bonnie Steinbock believes that drunk driving is a very serious offense‚ and could be grounds
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that William Douglas speaks about? William Douglas speaks about the ‘misadventure’ that when he was ten or eleven years old‚ a bruiser of a boy tossed him into the deep end of the YMCA pool. He was almost drowned but later luckily saved. After that incident he had the fear of water haunting his mind. 2. What were the series of emotions and fears that Douglas experienced when he was thrown into the pool? What plans did he make to come to the surface? When Douglas was thrown into
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Abraham Lincoln‚ First Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Ottawa‚ Illinois‚ August 21‚ 1858 (excerpt) I hate [indifference to slavery] because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world-enables the enemies of free institutions‚ with plausibility‚ to taunt us as hypocrites-causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity‚ and especially because it forces so many really good men amongst ourselves into
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The American Anti-Slavery Society‚ what used to be the AASG charged William Lloyd Garrison with writing the organization’s new declaration. The document condemns the institution of slavery and accuses slave owners of the sin of being a "man-stealer". It calls for the immediate abolition of slavery without terms‚ and is critical of the efforts of the American Colonization Society. At the same time‚ it declares the group to be pacifist‚ and the signers agree‚ if necessary‚ to die as martyrs. The black
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Abstract: Now as the items are perfect substitutes we can write the equation as f(x1‚ x2) = x1 + x2. Now this is Cobb-Douglas if the function has the form f(x1‚x2) = Ax^a1 x^b2‚ and provides us the utility function (Varian‚ 2010) and the graph shown in fig 3. For the production formula it would be Q=AK^ αL^β (Renshaw‚ 2009)as you can see both formulas are remarkably similar‚ as they both steam from the original theorem. So if we set A=10 and α= β=0.5‚ we get Q=10K^0.5L^0.5 now if we fix capital
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