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A very weak-minded fellow I am afraid, and, like the feather pillow, bears the marks of the last person who has sat on him!

Describing the 17th Earl of Derby

Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

Every position must be held to the last man: there must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight on to the end.

Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.

Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.

Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.

Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

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Born: June 19, 1861

Died: January 29, 1928 (aged 66)

Bio: Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig was a senior officer of the British Army. During the First World War he commanded the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front from late 1915 until the end of the war.

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