This is my history essay I did ages ago, so bear with me if there are a few mistakes!:
Field Marshall Haig: Butcher Of The
Somme?
In 1916, the British began to worry that Germany had the upper...
Sir Douglas Haig as a commander can easily be called a butcher. Any battle in any war can be called a butchery and nameless battles in the history of man are rightly or wrongly given the same title....
Well haig became a butcher because of his poor ideas to the way of fighting the germans. He got critisized on his ideas of way of fighting and the way he looked after his troops.Whilst haig was...
Haig can be classed as a hero due to the fact that eventually his tactics lead to Vritish victory at the battle of the Somme.However he can be classed as a butcher due to the extremely high casualty...