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Baden-Powell |
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Many of us already recognize Lord Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell as the founder of the Boy Scouts movement. However, most of us do not realize the sequence of events that led Baden-Powell to establish the Boy Scouts. |
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Born in London in
1857, Lord Baden-Powell developed many unconventional ( for the time ) techniques
for British Army scouts as part of his military career. These techniques were put to
the test under fire at the seige of Mafeking, a small African town, during the Boer wars over
100 years ago. Baden-Powell's goal was to impart some knowledge of these unconventional Army scouting techniques to boys before they joined the British Army. If learned early in life, Baden-Powell theorized, these thechniques could help them to be better British Army scouts. |
| Another little known fact: Lady Olave Baden-Powell, was the founder of the Girl Scout movement. | |
| Resources for Baden-Powell information: | |
| Baden-Powell by R.H. Kiernan author of "Lawrence of Arabia" | |
| Baden-Powell: The Two Lives Of A Hero by William Hillcourt | |
| AIDS to Scoutmastership by Sir Robert Baden-Powell | |