Does General Haig deserve to be remembered as ‘the butcher of the Somme’? General Haig was a famous general who won the last war in the First World War‚ he should be remembered as a hero‚ but why do people reckon him to be the opposite‚ as a butcher? As the ‘Butcher of the Somme ’? In my point of view‚ I think of general as a butcher rather than a hero‚ for he‚ in the first battle in the First World War‚ the battle of Somme‚ he used 420000 soldiers to defeat 500000 Germans soldiers and gain 10
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far does General Haig deserve to be known as ‘The Butcher Of The Somme’? By the battle of the Somme in 1916 the war had been in a huge stalemate for 18 months that didn’t look like it was going to be broken any time soon. Trenches had been dug on the Western front all they way from the coast at Ostend to the Alps. Just before the offensive at the Somme‚ Verdun was under a heavy attack from German forces forcing the French to pull all their troops back to Verdun. General Haig was asked to relieve
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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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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. They
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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 out
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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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Interpretation that Haig was a Butcher: Source B2 was written by P. Smith a private in the 1st Border Regiment during the Somme describes the battle from how he saw it during the battle. He described it as “pure bloody murder” on the battlefield and he goes on to say in the source how Haig should have been “hung‚ drawn and quartered for what he did at the Somme”. He also goes on later to see how “The cream of British manhood was shattered in less than 6 hours”. Source B2 is reliable because of
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40451 2 Choose three topics. Answer all questions on the three topics you have chosen. Topic 1: The Origins of the First World War Answer questions 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 2 and 0 3 . In 1900 Britain’s foreign policy was known as ‘Splendid Isolation’. Describe the changes in Britain’s foreign policy in the years
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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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Haig’s strategic choice of a massive frontal attack was in furtherance of his notion of a “Big Push” that would break the trench war stalemate. The greatest artillery barrage the world had ever known preceded it. The 3‚000‚000 shells were supposed to destroy the German barbed wire so Allied troops could walk 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
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