Douglas Haig's Death
Born (Birthday) June 19, 1861
Death Date January 29, 1928
Age of Death 66 years
Cause of Death Heart Attack
Profession War Hero
The war hero Douglas Haig died at the age of 66. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
British military officer who commanded the British Expeditionary Force during World War I, and later became known as Butcher Haig.
He married in 1905 and had four children.
Quotes
"Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.
"Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.
"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.
"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.
"Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.