Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (19 June 1861 – 29 January 1928) led the British Expeditionary Force during World War I. His reputation is still...
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Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, KT, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCIE (/heɪɡ/; 19 June 1861 – 29 January 1928) was a senior officer of the British Army....
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Fort Worth, Texas. Haig was fourth in the line of succession after Bush, Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill, and president pro tempore of the Senate Strom...
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"Interview with Alexander M. Haig, Jr" (PDF) (Interview). Interviewed by Naftali, Timothy; Powers, John; Brinkley, Douglas; Musgrave, Paul. Richard Nixon...
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Gary Sheffield (historian) (category Academics of the University of Birmingham)
illogical knots" to "rescue (Douglas) Haig from the justifiable charge of being an incompetent butcher" and "launder" his reputation in an "eccentric and cocksure...
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Hubert Gough (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath)
favourite of the Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) on the Western Front, Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, and the youngest of his Army...
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confidence because of Roberts' reputation for ruthlessness with unsatisfactory officers. French and Haig were sceptical about the riding abilities of Mounted Infantry...
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Sir William Robertson, 1st Baronet (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George)
Woodward, David R (2009). Sir William Robertson and Sir Douglas Haig, Chapter 5 of "Haig, a re-appraisal 80 years on", edited by Brian Bond & Nigel...
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Duff Cooper (redirect from Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich of Aldwick)
access to Haig's papers and relied heavily on Haig's (as yet unpublished) diaries. Haig's widow then had second thoughts and wrote a book of her own, The...
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Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (redirect from Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum)
Kitchener visited Douglas Haig, newly appointed Commander-in-Chief of the BEF in France. Kitchener had been a key figure in the removal of Haig's predecessor...
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