General Haig

Did command Haig Deserve To Be The Butcher of the Somme In June 1914 a Serb kill Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the throne of the Austrian Empire. Austria decided to take revenge against Serbia and invaded. However, Serbia had an conglutination with Russia, and Russia with France. Germany came to the aid of Austria. One by one, the powers of Europe were pulled into war by their alliances. This stemma is taken from a loudness called Investing History a instauration Study By 1916. The French were fighting at Verdun for 2 years in trespass warfargon and no one was winning.The French were on the brink of defeat so they asked the British could they attack on the Somme Valley to give the French some breathing space. The British bombarded the German trenches for 7 days non-stop. Over 3 gazillion shells hit the German trenches. However the Germans built underground bunkers made come in of concrete. On July initiative 1916 the outgrowth waves of the British soldiers went over the to p and were ordered to walk to the German trenches at walking pace thinking that all of the Germans were dead when the outpouring stoped however then the Germans came out of the bunkers and shot the British down with political machine guns.On the first day of the battle 20,000 British soldiers were killed and 30,000 soldiers were injured or wounded. Sir General Haig was in charge of the British at the time. People think that Haig should be remembered as the butcher of the Somme because he sent thousands of British soldiers to their deaths. Some community thought that Haig was a donkey leading lions. Over 1 million men volunteered to fight in 1914 thinking it would be over by Christmas but the battle of the Somme kept going until November 1916 the battle lasted five months. By the time the battle ended 420,000 British soldiers were dead.It was the biggest British military chance in British history, based on British and German first hand accounts on the battle. The other interpret ation of Haig is that he was just doing his ruminate because he was just sending men as he was ordered to do. Source 1A is a valid source to find out the law about General Haig because a private Fred Pearson on the Western Front, was commented On Haig in a local newspaper in 1966 and he tell The biggest murderer in the Somme of the lot was Haig Im very blistering always have been and always will be and everybody else that knew him.He lived 50 kilometres stinker the line and thats about as near as he got. I dont think he knew what a trench life was like and they made him an earl and gave him ? 100,000. I know what Id given him. I think this is reliable because the person who wrote this source is that he was there on the western front and he experienced what the war was like and what Haig was doing. Source 1B and source 2 is good to find out the fact that General Haig was a butcher of the Somme. P. smith, a private in the 1st border regiment fighting on the Somme, writing in his diary July 1916.Said, It was pure bloody murder. Douglas Haig should have been hung drawn and quartered for what he did on the Somme. What this means is that Haig sent Millions of the young generation to their deaths and no one had truly to replace them in their villages or towns. The cream of British manhood was shatter in less than six hours. This is reliable and useful because Private P. Smith was actually there at the battle of the Somme and he saw thousands of friends, family, killed and he foresaw Haigs doing. Haig was a second-rate commander in a unique and unforeseen circumstances. He was not endowed with any of the elements of imagination and fancy and he certainly had none of that personal magnetism which has enabled great leaders of men to inspire multitudes with courage, faith and a spirit of sacrifice he was incapable of planning vast campaigns on the scale demanded on so immense a battle. This was written by David Lloyd George, British hot flash Minster during th e First World War, writing in his War Memoirs (1935). This is reliable becauseSource 6 is valid information about finding the honor about Haig because its a cartoon and in it the major general is addressing the men before an attack behind the lines. I want you to understand that there is a difference between a rehearsal and the real thing. There are three essential differences first, the absence of the enemy. Now turning to the Regimental Sergeant- major(ip) what is the second difference? Sergeant Major. The absence of the General, Sir. This source was written in a cartoon to make fun out of the generals as seen in the cartoon. It was written in (February 1917) a cartoon from the British satirical clipping punch.Source 7 is a good evidence to find out the truth about Haig because in this source Blackadder is trying to change General Haigs mind about going over the top but Haig doesnt change his mind. This is taken from the BBC TV comedy series, Blackadder, which continually p ortrayed Haig and the generals as fools and murders. In this scene Blackadder is trying to persuade Haig to get him sent kinfolk while Haig plays games with toy British soldiers. The series was broadcast in the 1990s. I am now going to look at source 8 in this source John Laffin writing in his history book