Historical Figure
Robert Baden-Powell
1857–1941
British soldier and founder of The Scout Association (1857–1941)
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Biography
Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell,, was a British Army officer, writer, founder of The Boy Scouts Association and its first Chief Scout, and founder, with his sister Agnes, of The Girl Guides Association. Baden-Powell wrote Scouting for Boys, which with his previous books – such as his 1884 Reconnaissance and Scouting and his 1899 Aids to Scouting for N.-C.Os and Men, which was intended for the military, and The Scout magazine – helped the rapid growth of the Scout Movement.
Timeline
The story of Robert Baden-Powell, told in moments.
Commissioned in the British Army. Served in India and Africa. He became skilled at reconnaissance and woodcraft. His manual for soldiers, Aids to Scouting, was a surprise bestseller.
Commanded the defense of Mafeking during the Boer War. The siege lasted 217 days. He used boys as messengers and lookouts. When relief arrived, Britain erupted in celebration. He became a national hero.
Organized the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour with 20 boys. In 1908 he published Scouting for Boys. The Scout movement spread worldwide within years.
In Their Own Words (10)
If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!
The Scouter (November 1928); Reprinted in Footsteps of the Founder (1987), 1987
Leave this world a little better than you found it.
Baden-Powell's Last Message (1941), 1941
The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
Letter (September 1940), 1940
Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.
How to be happy though rich or poor (1930), 1930
"Here is the hatchet of war, of enmity, of bad feeling, which I now bury in Arrowe," said the Chief, at the same time plunging a hatchet in the midst of a barrel of golden arrows.""From all corners of the earth," said the Chief as soon as the cheering had subsided "you have journeyed to this great gathering of World Fellowship and Brotherhood. Today I send you out from Arrowe to all the World, bearing my symbol of Peace and Fellowship, each one of you my ambassador bearing my message of Love and Fellowship on the wings of Sacrifice and Service, to the end of the Earth. From now on the Scout symbol of Peace is the Golden Arrow. Carry it fast and far so that all men may know the Brotherhood of Man.""To THE NORTH—From the Northlands you came at the call of my horn to this great gathering of Fellowship and Brotherhood.""Today I send you back to your homelands across the great North Seas as my Ambassadors of Peace and Fellowship among the Nations of the World.""I bid you farewell.""TO THE SOUTH—From the Southland you came at the call of my horn to this great gathering of Fellowship and Brotherhood.""Today I send you back to your homes under the Southern Cross as my Ambassadors of Peace and Fellowship among the Nations of the World.""I bid you farewell.""TO THE WEST—From the Westlands you came at the call of my horn to this great gathering of Fellowship and Brotherhood.""Today I send you back to your homes in the Great Westlands to the Pacific and beyond as my Ambassadors of Peace and Fellowship among the Nations of the World.""I bid you farewell.""TO THE EAST—From the Eastlands you came at the call of my horn to this great gathering of Fellowship and Brotherhood.""Today I send you back to your homes under the Starry Skies and Burning Suns to your people of the thousand years, bearing my symbol of Peace and Fellowship to the Nations of the Earth, pledging you to keep my trust.""I bid you farewell."
Burying the Hatchet - BP Closing Address at the 3rd World Jamboree, Arrowe Park, 12 August 1929, 1929
Artifacts (15)
a gorgeous D.I.Y. organic university: extreme fertility!
ded poet Sjón, with whom she started a lifelong collaboration and formed a group, Rokka Rokka Drum. She described her time as part of Medusa as "a gorgeous D.I.Y. organic university: extreme...
Scouting for Boys: Building Character and Leadership Through Adventure and Outdoor Skills
In "Scouting for Boys," Robert Baden-Powell employs a pioneering narrative style that intertwines practical instruction with adventurous storytelling, pioneering the youth movement known as...
Young Knights of the Empire; Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns: in large print
Reproduction of the original. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the public in good...
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