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Baden-Powell, Major-General Robert,
1857–1941
Robert Baden-Powell attained world-wide fame as the commander of the besieged town of Mafeking
and, subsequently, as the founder of the Scout movement. His leadership during the siege has been
questioned ever since the siege was lifted, both in the gossip circulating in the army at the time and in
scholarly works since, in spite of, or perhaps because of, his being hailed as a hero by the popular
press.
Baden-Powell joined the 13th Hussars in 1876 and saw service in India, Afghanistan and also in
Matabeleland as Chief Staff Officer in 1896. He was sent out to Rhodesia in mid-1899 and was
making preparations for war on the Transvaal/Bechuanaland border when the severing of the railway
to the south initiated the siege of Mafeking. The town was already garrisoned by the Protectorate
Regiment under Colonel C. B. Vyvyan, to whom many later attributed the successful conduct of the
siege.
There is no doubt that Baden-Powell was a curious and complex character, claiming skills as an
author, artist, actor and scout as well as expressing enthusiasm for fighting, pig-sticking, playing polo,
big-game shooting, hunting, yachting and singing. Two major issues are raised in connection with
Mafeking. He armed men of the resident black African population, the Baralong, who became known
as the Black Watch. This he subsequently denied in his evidence to the Royal Commission. Second,
he stands accused of reducing the rations to black Africans to such an extent that they died of
starvation. This charge is based on differing uses of the reports of Daily Telegraphjournalist J.
Emerson Neilly by Thomas
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