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Part One: Robert Baden-Powell: Founder Of The Boy Scouts

Behind the Bastards

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He's a Stickler

He became an officer because that's the role men in his part of English society were born to occupy. As an officer, he was known for his teaching skills, sense of discipline and obsession with physical and moral cleanliness. He tried to sway his men from using brothels and advise them to beat the type who are guided by a sense of what is their duty rather than by their own inclination.

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