History 1810E Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Alden Nowlan
21 Jul 2016
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Douglas haig commander in chief, british expeditionary force. Haig believes western front is the only front the war will be decided here. Believes as long as the germans occupy france and belgium, the war cannot be won. William robertson chief of the imperial general staff. Thinks along the same lines as haig was actually one of the ones up for haig"s job. Began as a private and rises to field marshal highest rank in british army. Both these men were very inside the box thinkers. Canadian divisions had a certain amount of liberty and political freedom but still under. Ypres: april 22, 1915 second battle of ypres. Had been no indication that anything was going to happen but then their was a small outbreak of small guns fire in the north west corner. Looked in this direction and saw a big green cloud drifting towards them and small guns fire increased. First chemical gas attack in wwi - chlorine.
