The Battle of Passchendaele (October-November 1917), the final stage of the Third Battle of Ypres, took place in Flanders, Belgium, during the First World War (1914-18). #History #BritishArmy #DouglasHaig #FirstWorldWar #GermanArmy #Passchendaele #WesternFront #WorldWarI #WWI #Ypres #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2893-en/

The First Battle of the Somme took place in northern France during the First World War from 1 July to 18 November 1916. #History #DouglasHaig #FirstWorldWar #Somme #WesternFront #WWI #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-25597-en/

On the subject of #Zelensky firing his miltary chief, #Zaluzhny: I'm no military historian, but the Civil War would have been shorter and ended better had #Lincoln fired McLellan long before he did. And #HarryTruman was right to fire #DouglasMcArthur. WWI might have gone better had #DouglasHaig been fired.

Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.... #DouglasHaig #quotations https://openquotes.github.io/authors/douglas-haig-quotes/#d4f592a9