Episode 2 - Sir Douglas Haig

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4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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On this episode Joe and Nick talk about Field Marshal Douglas Haig who led the majority of the UK's efforts during WW1, including the brutal battles of the Somme and Passchendaele. Remember kids: Just because you're bad at math doesn't mean that you too may one day lead millions of men to their deaths. Follow joe on Twitter @jkass99 Follow Nick on twitter @nickcasm1 Follow the podcast @lions_by

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0:00.0	The Welcome back to another episode of the lines led by Donkeys podcast is episode two which is two more than we ever
0:25.1	thought we'd be making. We are Joe Anik and today we're going to be covering
0:29.8	another World War I general even though we said last episode we won't but we're going to do it anyway.
0:35.0	So British Field Marshal Douglas Haig, the first Earl of Haig, all known as the Butcher of the Somme.
0:41.0	The best donkey. The best donkey of all the donkeys and how we
0:46.8	nickname this podcast we're drinking Newcastle brown ale that I left on the counter to get nice and warm because we hate ourselves,
0:56.5	and mostly because we could never afford any of Haig's family's whiskey. I don't think they make it anymore and it's sincerely expensive.
1:06.2	He probably would have been better off leading that than his own men.
1:08.9	Yeah, he could have just been a worthless drunk like his dad and millions people would still be alive.
1:14.8	Very. So Haig was bored in Enborough in, all right, so I don't know if that's Enborough Edinburgh, but he was born there in 1861 to a fantastically
1:28.0	rich family who ragged the Haig and Haig whiskey distillery.
1:32.2	His father was John Richard Hague and was a drunk and his mother was born into the gentry, which is old-timey British speak for being just one step below the nobility, but her family had fallen on the hard time so she was forced to marry a dirty commoner.
1:47.5	Both of his parents are dead by the time he was 18 from a combination of alcoholism and it being just a horrible time in history to be an old person.
1:55.2	He attended the Brazano's college but did not graduate.
2:00.8	Instead he entered the Royal Military College at Sandhurst in 1884, one of the oldest guys in the class.
2:08.0	And unlike a lot of terrible military leaders, he graduated at the top of his class.
2:15.9	You know, you have people like Custer and other generals of the world, a civil war area who limped by
2:22.1	in West Point and barely passed.
2:25.7	But as long as Haig had doctrine and books
2:28.4	in front of him, he was great.
2:29.9	He was a great officer.
2:32.1	Unfortunately, being in the military military there's more into it than that and it was all that shit he sucked at.
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