Haig elected to relocate to Brussels in March, and there embarked on an intensive recording schedule at Little Big One studio.

Haig also embarked on his first tour since 1989 when he promoted both old and new tracks in Scotland and selected dates in Nottingham and London in April 2008.

Around 1945, Dizzy Gillespie parted ways with Parker, and Davis was hired as Gillespie's replacement in his quintet, which also featured Max Roach on drums, Al Haig ( replaced later by Sir Charles Thompson and Duke Jordan ) on piano, and Curley Russell ( later replaced by Tommy Potter and Leonard Gaskin ) on bass.

Over the months, John Lewis alternated with Al Haig on piano, Mike Zwerin with Kai Winding on trombone ( Johnson was touring at the time ), Junior Collins with Sandy Siegelstein and Gunther Schuller on French horn, and Al McKibbon with Joe Shulman on bass.

* 1916 – World War I: First Battle of the Somme – in France, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle which started on July 1, 1916.

* November 18 – WWI – Battle of the Somme: In France, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle, which started on July 1.

Sir Douglas Haig succeeded Sir John French as Commander-in-Chief of the BEF on 19 December 1915.

The plan was welcomed by Haig with reservations, which he addressed on 6 January.

After repeated insistence on Haig's part, Nivelle agreed to a proviso that if the first two " phases " of the operations failed to lead to the phase three, they would be stopped so that the British could move their main forces north for the Flanders offensive, which Haig argued was of great importance to the British government.

Haig wrote on 23 January that it would take six weeks to move British troops and equipment from the Arras front to Flanders and on 14 March he noted that the attack on Messines Ridge could be made in May.

In early May Haig set the timetable for his Flanders offensive, with 7 June the date for the preliminary attack on Messines Ridge.

A week after Messines Ridge Haig gave his objectives to his Army commanders: wearing out the enemy, securing the Belgian coast and connecting with the Dutch frontier by the capture of Passchendaele Ridge, followed by an advance on Roulers and Operation Hush, an attack along the coast with an amphibious landing and that if the manpower and artillery were insufficient, only the first part of the plan might be fulfilled.

Haig told General Gough of the Fifth Army that he would command of the ' northern operation ' and the coastal force on 30 April 1917.

Haig selected Gough to command the offensive on 30 April and on 10 June Gough took over the Ypres salient north of Messines Ridge.

Gough planned an offensive based on the GHQ 1917 plan and the instructions he had received from Sir Douglas Haig.

On the understanding that Haig wanted a more ambitious version, Gough held meetings with his Corps commanders on 6 and 16 June where the third objective, which included the German Wilhelm ( third ) Line, was added to the first and second objectives due to be taken on the first day.

Haig transferred authority for the offensive to General Plumer, the Second Army commander on 25 August and moved the northern boundary of the Second Army boundary close to the Ypres – Roulers railway.

At a conference on 13 October Haig and the army commanders agreed that attacks would stop until the weather improved and roads extended, to carry more artillery and ammunition forward for better fire support.

Haig wished to exploit the diversion of German forces in Russia for as long as it continued and urged that the maximum amount of manpower and munitions be committed to the battle in Flanders.

The staircase, shown in a watercolour perspective prepared by Axel Haig, was long thought never to have been built but recent research has shown that it was in fact constructed, only to be torn out in the 1930s.

In the spring of 1918 French wrote Lloyd George a long letter complaining of how Haig had intrigued against him in 1915, including criticising him to his subordinates, and how Haig and Robertson had ( allegedly ) conspired to gain military supremacy over the civil power.

The Official Historian Brigadier Edmonds later alleged that French had removed Smith-Dorrien as he stood in the way of Haig becoming Commander-in-Chief, but this seems unlikely as their antipathy went back a long way and French was later ( December 1915 ) replaced by Douglas Haig as Commander-in-Chief of the BEF against his will.

For example, Jim Lobe has stated that " Ledeen's right-wing Italian connections — including alleged ties to the P2 masonic lodge that rocked Italy in the early 1980s — have long been a source of speculation and intrigue, but he returned to Washington in 1981 as ' anti-terrorism ' advisor to the new secretary of state, Al Haig.

In 1991, British historian Denis Winter, a staunch critic of Haig, acknowledged Edmonds ' comprehensive understanding of British operations during the war but said " Only a profoundly knowledgeable man could have produced an Official History so misleading and yet with that ring of plausibility which has led to a general acceptance for so long.

Travers wrote that the Official History omitted a request, made by Gough in August for a conference to discuss a remedy for the lack of weight being brought against the Gheluvelt plateau, which Haig and the staff at GHQ should have settled along with the awkward placing of the boundary between the Fifth and Second armies, long before the attack commenced.

Travers had criticised the published draft, for failing to record that Haig had not resolved disagreements and problems among his subordinates long before the ofensive began ; Green pointed out that Edmonds had made the same criticism.

Club Atlético Douglas Haig has enjoyed regional prominence, long forming part of the Argentine B League.

This long history ended abruptly in March 1986, when Haig Pit, Cumbria's last deep coal mine, finally closed.

In 2000 she contributed two tracks, one a cover version of Tim Buckley's " Song to the Siren " and the other a remix of her solo track " Ever So Lonely / Eyes / Ocean " by Stephen Haig, to the album Gifted on Real World Records.

Haig subsequently teamed up with a Belgian independent record label Les Disques du Crépuscule, and in January 1982 made solo live debuts in Edinburgh and London.

In July, almost a year after Josef K had split, yet with just one proper solo record to his name in " Running Away ", Haig was labelled " the face and sound of 1982 " by Paul Morley in a lead feature for the NME.

Yet fine though songs such as " Justice ", " Adoration " and " Stolen Love " were, Haig's solo debut played very much as a producer's record, and in surrendering a measure of artistic control Haig lost something of his identity.

Go Out Tonight saw Haig return to his roots and tracks such as " Trouble Maker " are very reminiscent of early solo recordings such as " Chance ".

Although Haig became known for his distinctive and pioneering bebop style, he in fact spent much of his career playing in non-jazz contexts.

" The flap was widely reported in the media, and Jones was " swamped with vituperative mail " until Haig made a serious blunder less than three months later and was forced to leave office, effectively ending his political career.

Haig ended his military career as the Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff-John M. Shalikashvili, where his duties lay with the preparation of all speeches, briefings, public statements, and congressional testimonies.

In Britain his plays are now regularly revived in community theatre and in 2008, he had his first West End production in a career of almost fifty years with Jonathan Kent's revival of The Sea at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, with David Haig and Eileen Atkins.

Peden has also produced albums for Daryl Hall, Mica Paris, David Bowie, Smoke City, Des ' ree, Estelle, Gareth Gates, Kelly Clarkson, YoYo-Honey, Alison Williams, Paul Haig, B-Movie, Tina Turner, Rachel Stevens, Will Young, Crustation, Billy Ocean, Lena Fiagbe, Terri Walker, Amy Studt, Siobhan Dillon, LibertyX, Angel Lee, Delta Goodrem, The Smashing Pumpkins, Protocol, Lucie Silvas, and Shakira.

Exploring territory first charted by Heaven 17 in their BEF guise, both singles appeared under the generic name Rhythm Of Life Organisation ( RoL ), an imprimatur Haig has retained ever since for everything from albums, labels and backing bands.

The Liberal Party finally split openly during the Maurice Debate in 1918, at which Lloyd George was accused ( almost certainly correctly ) of hoarding manpower in the UK to prevent Haig from launching any fresh offensives ( e. g. Passchendaele, 1917 ), possibly with a view to sending more troops to Palestine or Italy instead, and thus contributing to Allied weakness during the temporarily successful German offensives of spring 1918, in which British casualties were actually heavier than in their own offensives the previous year.

Early in 1899, at his own request, French borrowed £ 2, 500, in a formal contract with interest, from his subordinate Douglas Haig.

Haig asked him to accept “ as a favour ”, but Robertson was “ staggered ” by Wilson demanding and getting a formal invitation from Haig, Nivelle and the War Cabinet, and a clear statement of his own and Haig ’ s status.

My Family has used several actors from various past hit sitcoms, most notably David Haig from The Thin Blue Line, Belinda Lang of 2point4 children, Diana Weston from The Upper Hand who ( in a possible reference to a character from her own sitcom ) portrayed a male-female transsexual named Charlie, Pauline Quirke of Birds of a Feather and Sam Kelly from On the Up.

Haig's own diaries are used to demonstrate how Haig positioned himself to take over command.

The Haig Point Club has its own private ferry service.

Haig wrote that Wood was “ a capital fellow to have upon one ’ s side as he always gets his own way ”.

Miss Haig initially maintained and managed the empty venue on her own and then changed the venues name back to the ' London Hippodrome ' from its previous name ' Cirque '.

Indeed Haig has never once released a record with his own face on the front cover.

Since 1993 Haig has released two further volumes of Cinematique on his own RoL imprint, as well as several archive releases by the late Billy Mackenzie.