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* Frederick Russell Burnham ( May 11, 1861-September 1, 1947 ), best known for his service in the First Matabele War, Second Matabele War, the Second Boer War, and for teaching woodcraft ( i. e., scoutcraft ) to Robert Baden-Powell, becoming one of the inspirations to the founding of the Boy Scouts and recognized today as the father of the international scouting movement.
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* Russell, Frederick H. “ Just War ” in The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy, edited by Robert Pasnau and Christina Van Dyke.
* The Australian Impressionists, including Frederick McCubbin and Tom Roberts who were prominent members of the Heidelberg School and John Peter Russell a friend of Van Gogh, Rodin, Monet and Matisse as well as Rupert Bunny, Agnes Goodsir and Hugh Ramsay.
Baden-Powell wrote the principles of Scouting in Scouting for Boys ( London, 1908 ), based on his earlier military books, with influence and support of Frederick Russell Burnham ( Chief of Scouts in British Africa ), Ernest Thompson Seton of the Woodcraft Indians, William Alexander Smith of the Boys ' Brigade, and his publisher Pearson.
In 1896, Baden-Powell was assigned to the Matabeleland region in Southern Rhodesia ( now Zimbabwe ) as Chief of Staff to Gen. Frederick Carrington during the Second Matabele War, and it was here that he first met and began a lifelong friendship with Frederick Russell Burnham, the American born Chief of Scouts for the British.
In 1909, Frederick F. Russell, a U. S. Army physician, developed an American typhoid vaccine and two years later his vaccination program became the first in which an entire army was immunized.
The discovery of copper is owed partly to an American scout, Frederick Russell Burnham, who in 1895 lead and oversaw the massive Northern Territories ( BSA ) Exploration Co. expedition which established for the Western world that major copper deposits existed in Central Africa.
The discovery of copper is owed partly to Frederick Russell Burnham, the famous American scout who worked for Cecil Rhodes.
For instance, the residents of Camp Skagway Number One included: William Howard Taft, who went on to become a U. S. President ; Frederick Russell Burnham, the celebrated American scout who arrived from Africa only to be called back to take part in the Second Boer War ; and W. W. White, author and explorer.
The Australian collection includes works by Charles Blackman, John Brack, Arthur Boyd, Louis Buvelot, Rupert Bunny, Nicholas Chevalier, Charles Conder, David Davies, William Dobell, Russell Drysdale, E. Phillips Fox, John Glover, Eugene von Guerard, Hans Heysen, George W. Lambert, Sydney Long, John Longstaff, Frederick McCubbin, Sidney Nolan, John Perceval, Margaret Preston, Hugh Ramsay, Tom Roberts, John Russell, Grace Cossington Smith, Arthur Streeton, Fred Williams and others.
* Frederick Russell Burnham was an American scout for the British South Africa Company who served in both the First Matabele War ( 1893-94 ) and the Second Matabele War ( 1896-97 ).
Once partisan feelings became tense and hostilities began, Frederick Russell Burnham, who later became a celebrated scout and the inspiration for the boy scouts, was drawn into the conflict on the losing side.
Boy Scouting was founded by Robert Baden Powell in England and co-founded by the American Scout Major Frederick Russell Burnham.
Throughout the 1940s, Frederick Russell Burnham served as the Honorary President of the Roosevelt Council Boy Scouts.
The Scouts first became interested in the sheep through the efforts of Major Frederick Russell Burnham.
On May 11, 1941, the Boy Scouts of America honored Major Frederick Russell Burnham on his eightieth birthday, at Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico.
* Frederick Russell, " Children's Crusade ", Dictionary of the Middle Ages, 1989, ISBN 0-684-17024-8
* Frederick Russell Burnham participated on the losing side in the real-life Tonto Basin Feud and narrowly escaped alive.
from left to right: Winston Spencer Churchill, Judd Dunning Blick, John Charles Blick, Frederick Russell Burnham.
Frederick and Burnham
The Chicago Columbian Exposition was, in large part, designed by Daniel Burnham and Frederick Law Olmsted.
Burnham emphasized architecture and sculpture as central to the fair and assembled the period's top talent to design the buildings and grounds including Frederick Law Olmsted for the grounds.
The layout of the fairgrounds was created by Frederick Law Olmsted, and the Beaux-Arts architecture of the buildings was under the direction of Daniel Burnham, Director of Works for the fair.
The British Army Chief of Scouts, the American Frederick Russell Burnham, required pemmican to be carried by every scout.
The other eighteen who were awarded this distinction were: Roy Chapman Andrews ; Robert Bartlett ; Frederick Russell Burnham ; George Kruck Cherrie ; James L. Clark ; Merian C. Cooper ; Lincoln Ellsworth ; Louis Agassiz Fuertes ; George Bird Grinnell ; Charles A. Lindbergh ; Donald Baxter MacMillan ; Clifford H. Pope ; George P. Putnam ; Kermit Roosevelt ; Carl Rungius ; Stewart Edward White ; Orville Wright. Byrd Memorial on Mount Victoria, Wellington, New ZealandAlso in 1927, the City of Richmond dedicated the Richard Evelyn Byrd Flying Field, now Richmond International Airport, in Henrico County, Virginia.
Frederick and May
Albert Frederick (, ; 7 May 1553 Königsberg – 28 August 1618 Fischhausen ) was duke of Prussia from 1568 until his death.
Frederick I of Ansbach and Bayreuth ( also known as Frederick V ; or ; 8 May 1460 – 4 April 1536 ) was born at Ansbach as the eldest son of the Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg by his second wife Anna, daughter of Frederick II, Elector of Saxony.
# Sofie ( 10 March 1485, Ansbach – 24 May 1537, Liegnitz ), married on 14 November 1518 to Duke Frederick II of Legnica.
Frederick William I () ( 14 August 1688 – 31 May 1740 ) was the King in Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg ( as Frederick William II ) from 1713 until his death.
Frederick Augustus II ( full name: Frederick Augustus Albert Maria Clemens Joseph Vincenz Aloys Nepomuk Johann Baptista Nikolaus Raphael Peter Xavier Franz de Paula Venantius Felix ) ( Dresden, 18 May 1797 – Brennbüchel, Karrösten, Tyrol, 9 August 1854 ) was King of Saxony and a member of the House of Wettin.
The May Uprising was crushed by Saxon and Prussian troops and Frederick was able to return after only a few days.
# Anna of Brandenburg ( 27 August 1487, Berlin – 3 May 1514, Kiel ), married 10 April 1502 to King Frederick I of Denmark.
The city surrendered to British forces under Frederick Roberts on 5 June 1900 and the conflict was ended in Pretoria with the signing of the Peace of Vereeniging on 31 May 1902.
* 1176: On May 29, Frederick Barbarossa's forces were defeated in the Battle of Legnano by the Lombard League which resulted in the emperor's acknowledgement of the pope's sovereignty over the Papal States and Alexander acknowledging the emperor's overlordship of the imperial Church.
* May 17 – Frederick the Great's army defeats Austrians in Chotusitz ; later Austria cedes Silesia to Prussia.
* May 6 – The " Invincibles " ( militant Irish republicans ) kill Lord Frederick Cavendish, chief secretary for Ireland and permanent undersecretary T. H.
* 6 May 1882-Lord Frederick Cavendish, Chief Secretary for Ireland, assassinated in the Phoenix Park by the Invincibles.
* May 6 – Seven Years ' War – Battle of Prague ( 1757 ): Frederick the Great defeats an Austrian army and begins to besiege the city.
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