Biography of General Douglas Haig

One of the worst ones was when he send a destiny ot troops to an unsuccessful offensive on the Somme River in July-November 1916, which turn over to 420,000 British casualties. The Battle of the Somme was one of the largest battles that happened in World warfare 1 and it was the bloodiest war that happened. HIS strategy of attrition (kill more Germans) excessively resulted in enormous numbers of British casualties. Yet another blemish plan had been hatched by General Haig in an attempt to licking the Germans on the French and Belgian Flanders in 1917. This attack was also know as the Third Battle of Ypres.It was a significant attack and a rather large one for It was estimated that 4. 5 million shells were fired from 3,000 guns from the British side. This attack resulted In huge amounts of casualnes for the British. Haigs original plan for this attack was to pull across the Gheluvelt Plateau, take the village of Passchendaele. and then break through to idle country. But his att ack was not successful and the heavy rain that happened broadly slowed the attack down. The thick mud in the trenches clogged up rifles and immobilised tanks.Also the situation that he drainage systems there were mainly destroyed due to the onslaught that took place there made everything worse. It was believed that the third Ypres offensive was mix with his personal teelings. General Haig wanted to achieve a British conquest without the help of the French because he wanted to embarrass PM David Lloyd George, who had spite him earlier and he wanted to prove that the days of the cavalry had not passed through that attack. In general his talth tor cavalry didnt do him a lot ot good, also he was slightly too traditional for he utter that the machine gun was a much over rated weapornHowever, his reputation as a great military leader was not wrong. He had lead terrible battles and allowed the British to progress slowly to their victory In 1918. He did exactly this during his attem pt to defeat Germans in July-November 1917 though he had just now weakened the Germans. it had paved the way for the final assault. He also naa an amazing sense Tor war. He was one 0T tne Tew people wno naa Knew was going to be a long and terrifying war. But his sense had helped him and his country tremendously when he was able to finally defeat the Germans and brought the war to a conclusion beforehand the end of 1918.