On 1 July 1916, the British Army attacked the German front line on the Somme in an ill-planned and over-ambitious offensive. Advancing soldiers were slaughtered by machine guns and artillery fire as ...

Four-star general Alexander Haig, 85, the Reagan administration Secretary of State who claimed to be “in control” of the White House after Reagan was shot in 1981, died today in Johns Hopkins Hospital ...

The May 30 Gazette Packet describes how Councilmember Justin Wilson jokingly addressing Vice Mayor Allison Silberberg as “Alexander Haig” while she was presiding at a Council meeting during a short ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Alexander Haig, a former Army general who became White House chief of staff during the Watergate scandal and secretary of state during the Reagan administration, died Saturday ...

GRANT and Eisenhower aside, America is uneasy about handing civil power to soldiers; and from the very start of the Reagan administration, in 1981, there was nothing Al Haig could do to erase the ...

Angus Haig, senior vice president and general counsel, Cox Automotive Group (Photo: John Disney/ALM) With revenues of more than $7 billion, Cox Automotive is one of three divisions of privately owned, ...

WASHINGTONWASHINGTON — Soldier and statesman, Alexander Haig never lived down his televised response to the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. Haig died Saturday at age 85 having ...

The man primarily responsible for the greatest disaster in British military history was General Sir Douglas Haig, whose over-optimistic planning under-estimated enemy strength and ignored lessons to ...

Alexander Haig, who has died aged 85, commanded an infantry division in Vietnam, became a four-star general and later helped to bring about a final ceasefire; he served as White House Chief of Staff ...