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Haig, Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas,
1861–1928
Douglas Haig served for the greater part of the war on the staff of Major-general Sir John French,
under whom he was to serve again in the First World War and whom he replaced as Commander-inChief in that war.
Haig had joined the 7th Hussars in 1885 and served in the Sudan where he conducted the final
reconnaissances before the battles of Atbara and Omdurman. He assisted the then Colonel French in
the preparation of the Cavalry Drill Bookof 1896. With French, he escaped from Ladysmith on the
last train to leave before the siege of that town started in 1899 and was thus available to take part in
the cavalry operations in Cape Colony and the Orange Free State. In the guerrilla phase of the war he
was involved in planning drives to capture Boer commandos and in the final months was in command
of the 17th Lancers.
In his evidence to the inquiry held after the war, Haig criticised the decision to deprive the
cavalry of lances and swords and held out for the use of the cavalry in its traditional role. He held
that a mounted attack thus armed could produce more rapid and decisive results than could be gained
with the rifle. The performance of the cavalry in the relief of Kimberley and at the Battle of Diamond
Hill can be cited in support of this view, but neither was undertaken in the face of concentrated rifle
and machine-gun fire which had been seen in this war and would be characteristic of the First World
War. He became Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force in France in December
1915.
See also:
Drives; Horses.
Reference:
Hall, Darrell, ed. Fransjohan Pretorius and Gilbert Torlage, The Hall Handbook of the Anglo-Boer
War (Pietermaritzburg, University of Natal Press, 1999).
Hamilton, Major-General Bruce M.
Forty-four-year old Bruce Hamilton commanded the British forces that prevented Commandant-
general Louis Botha’s planned invasion of Natal in 1901.
Hamilton joined the 15th Foot (the East Yorkshire Regiment) in 1877 and served in the Second
Afghan War and the First Boer War as aide-de-camp to
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