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

Behind the Bastards

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The Most Dangerous Charge Made Against Robert Baden Powell

In 1898, Robert Baden Powell was in charge of an operation to track down Zulu rebels and he lost control of his men who murdered at least three people. The most famous moment of Baden Powell's military career came the next year in 1899 with the outbreak of the Second Boer War. This is one of those rare colonial wars where there's not really anyone who's like a good guy here because the Boers horrible people.

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