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The British prime minister, David Lloyd George, constantly antagonistic to Haig and unreceptive to his requests from the field, exacerbated the situation by putting the British troops under the orders of the French commander in 1917. Haig thus conducted the Passchendaele campaign (July-Nov., 1917; see Ypres, battles of ) under orders from Gen. Robert Nivelle, while the French army was being reorganized after a mutiny.

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