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The History of Lord Baden Powell
In 1896, he returned to Africa and fought in the second Matabelli War. This was a revolt of the indigenous Matabelli people against the British South Africa Company. Baden Powell had no issue deploying industrial armed might against a subject people who had starved due in part to cattle pests brought over by the British colonizers. He is an unrepentant imperialist.