Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig
(Geoffrey Palmer) ("Goodbyeee") The hard nosed leader of the British Army during the First World War whose best advice for Blackadder to escape the final push was to stick two pencils up his nose and his underpants on his head so that he would be classed as insane and sent home, a plan which Blackadder had already tried... "The phrase rhymes with clucking bell." (i.e. "fucking hell").
Haig is somewhat similar to Melchett as a war leader. As he is talking to Blackadder on the phone, he is seen to be arranging a group of soldiers in a scale map. He then knocks them down with a stick and casually sweeps them into a waste basket.
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