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Douglas Haig ( 1861 – 1928) var en britisk offiser og feltmarskalk under den første verdenskrig. Han kommanderte Den britiske ekspedisjonsstyrken (BEF) fra 1915 til krigens slutt og var kjent som den britiske offiseren som hadde flest tap. På grunn av dette (2 millioner av hans menn døde under krigen) ble han gitt tilnavnet «Butcher Haig».
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (born June 19, 1861, Edinburgh—died Jan. 29, 1928, 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 in 1916–17 and made him a subject of controversy.
In 1960 further alterations were carried out by George Haig, 2nd Earl Haig to improve the overall design and proportions of the house. The lands of Bemersyde have stayed in the possession of the Haig family for eight hundred years, a fact predicted in the thirteenth century by Thomas the Rhymer, who said 'Tyde what may, what’er betyde, Haig shall be Haig of Bemersyde’.
1066109 [1] The Earl Haig Memorial is a bronze equestrian statue of the British Western Front commander Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig on Whitehall in Westminster, London. It was created by the sculptor Alfred Frank Hardiman and commissioned by Parliament in 1928. Eight years in the making, it aroused considerable controversy; the Field Marshal's ...
3. Feb. 2004 · George Alexander Eugene Douglas Haig, 2nd Earl Haig was born on 15 March 1918. 1 He was the son of Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig and Hon. Dorothy Maud Vivian. 1 He married, firstly, Adrienne Thérèse Morley, daughter of Derrick Morley and Lesley Campbell, on 19 July 1956. 1 He and Adrienne Thérèse Morley were divorced in 1981. 1 He married, secondly, Donna Geroloma Lopez y Royo ...
George Alexander Eugene Douglas Haig, 2nd Earl Haig, OBE, KStJ, DL, FRSA (15 March 1918 – 9 July 2009) was a British artist and peer who succeeded to the earldom of Haig on 29 January 1928, at the age of nine upon the death of his father, Field Marshal the 1st Earl Haig. Until then he was styled Viscount Dawick. Throughout his life, he was ...
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig. Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig was a Field Marshal of the British Army. He was ‘Commander-in-Chief’ of the British troops in France and Belgium during most part of World War I. He became a controversial figure because of his war strategy of ‘Attrition,’ which led to heavy casualties (around 2 million during ...
