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Baden-Powell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Baron
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[baydn powel]
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| British general and founder of the Boy Scout movement, born in London, UK. He studied at Charterhouse, joined the army in 1876, served in India and Afghanistan, and won fame during the Boer War as the defender of Mafeking (1899–1900). He is best known as the founder in 1908 of the Boy Scouts and in 1910, with his sister Agnes (1858–1945), of the Girl Guides, known as Girl Scouts in the USA after 1912. In 1916 he organized the Wolf Cubs in Britain (known as Cub Scouts in the USA) for boys under the age of 11. In 1920 he was made world chief scout at the first international Boy Scout Jamboree, and in 1929 was created Baron Baden-Powell. He published Scouting for Boys in 1908. |
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