What did haig do right in the battle of the Somme?

Answer 1

he gave his reason by saying that he did not know that all his back up plans failed. He sent lines of men after the other because he just thought that there was a few Germans there then when the 4 lot died he sent more than before because he thought that there might be a lot of gemans he would not of sent his men there if he knew that all his plans failed.

Answer 2

Who knows? some people say he is and some people say he isn't. there is no right or wrong answer here.

Why he was to blame: He used untrained men to defend on parts of the land. He used tanks (which where very new in those days) 49 were available and only 32 made it to the start line. He was over confident in a bombardment on the Germans where he thought the Germans were dead and the Germans that weren't dead would give up and leave.

Answer 3

General Haig commanded the BEF to bombard the German Defenders, while they were firing artillery at them, the German's resisted whilst sitting, probably laughing and chilling in their reinforced bunkers with extra-protective gear such as helmets which were made of better steel and made with more care than the British helmets.

Answer 4

At the Battle of the Somme, General Haig Decide decided to use 750,000 men (27 divisions) against the German front line (16 divisions). However, the offensive failed to wipe out either the barbed-wire or the concrete bunkers that protected the German soldiers and the British side suffered 58,000 casualties and a third of them were killed

Answer 5

General Douglas Haig was the British commander-in-chief during the Battle of the Somme. One thing he did right was not adjust the number of casualties during the battle.

Answer 6

General Haig fought in battles where modern weapons, as he knew them were not understood. He failed to understand progress and because of that failure many men died, perhaps unnecessarily.