General Haig the ‘Butcher of the Somme’ The Battle of the Somme was important and crucial to the development of the First World War; and earmarked the final result of the War. Both the Allies and the Germans were extremely eager to make some achievement in order to boost the morale of the armed forces and the confidence of their own countrymen after a long period of stalemate in the various battle fronts. They were both prepared to exhaust all means to win over the other. General Haig was definitely
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Field Marshal Douglas Haig was a British senior officer in World War One and commanded in the Battle of the Somme‚ which was arguably one of the bloodiest battles in British military history. Haig gained the title of the butcher of the Somme after the end of World War One‚ due to the indescribable amount of casualties and deaths that took place. One could say that Haig deserves the title because of the huge loss of life‚ his bad planning and repetition of bad tactics and the fact that he was completely
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General Haig deserve to be known as ‘The Butcher of the Somme’? The Battle of the Somme was the most costly battle in terms of casualties every in the history of British Military. A decisive breakthrough was needed by the allies after 2 years of stalemate on the Western Front however after the first day of fighting at the Somme‚ it became very clear that the artillery bombardment had fail to smash German defences and barbed wire and so there were 60000 casualties on the 1/7/1916. General Haig had the
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Haig was the Butcher of the Somme Explain how far you agree with this view Field Marshal Haig is known as the butcher of the Somme. But was he really to blame and responsible for the death of many soldiers he was in charge of during World War 1? He is remembered mainly for the death of thousands of men during the Battle of the Somme. On the first day alone 60‚000 British soldiers lost their lives. The reason that so many soldiers died was because Haig ordered his men to walk across no man’s
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Assessment- Interpretations of Haig (The battle of the Sommes was a notorious event that occurred in the time frame of World War I‚ between France and England on one side‚ while on the other side‚ Germany. The objective of this battle for the English side is too re-conquer/ seize the French town of Verdun‚ a stronghold of France against Germany. Also‚ the English soldiers were ordered to annihilate as much German soldiers as possible‚ in order to eventually gain the vantage point of the battle
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General Certificate of Secondary Education June 2013 History Specification B 40451 Unit 1: International Relations: Conflict and Peace in the Twentieth Century Monday 3 June 2013 1.30 pm to 3.15 pm For this paper you must have: an AQA 12-page answer book. Time allowed 1 hour 45 minutes Instructions Use black ink or black ball-point pen. Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Examining Body for this paper is AQA. The Paper Reference is
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The Battle of the Somme was one of the largest battles of the first world war‚ which was fought between July 1st and November 1st in 1918. It was named so as the battle was fought near the Somme river in France. On the first day alone‚ our side suffered more than 57 thousand casualties and by the last day of the battle we had lost more than 1.5 million men. Sir Douglas Haig was British commander on the Western Front during the majority of the first world war. The high casualties of the battle were
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through virtually unmolested. That did not happen‚ and because Haig had no effective intelligence capability‚ the first to learn that truth were attacking troops who died by the thousands on the wire. The Germans suffered massive losses at the Somme as well‚ but as defenders the resulting stalemate operated in their favour. In the old game of warfare‚ time was on their side. In the 19th century mindset‚ and especially after Verdun and the Somme‚ it was reasonable for Germany to assume that eventually
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Haig was born in Edinburgh on 19 June 1861. He was born into a wealthy family that had good business. When Haig was younger he went to a good school and in 1884 went to Royal Military Academy at Sand Hurst. He first served as a Calvary Commander; however this experience was not useful in the battle of Somme because it was trench warfare which was a new kind of war so he couldn’t use the same tactics. He was also a celebrated commander of the Boer war‚ but the Africans were weaker and were poorer
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General Douglas Haig was the general of the army and he had a really important role to play. His role was to command the army; however‚ his plans didn’t turn out to be a success because there were so many deaths. This was in the Battle of the Somme. The Battle of the Somme was on July 1st 1916 – November 18th 1916. This battle had started as Germany had attacked France in Verdun and France was losing. This then meant that they had to call one of their allies and the only near friend was Britain
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