It was also during this time in the Matobo Hills that Baden-Powell first started to wear his signature campaign hat like the one worn by Burnham, and it was here that Baden-Powell acquired his Kudu horn, the Ndebele war instrument he later used every morning at Brownsea Island to wake the first Boy Scouts and to call them together in training courses.

Seton also influenced Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting.

The programme also attracted complaints from the Boy Scout Association, who were upset by an item questioning the sexuality of its founder Lord Baden-Powell, and the government of Cyprus, which claimed that a joke about Archbishop Makarios, the country's ruler, was a " gross violation of internationally accepted ethics ".

Manned kite flying and aerial photography was advanced also by French Marcel Maillot, British Robert Baden-Powell, Americans Charles Lamson and William Abner Eddy, Australian Lawrence Hargrave ( inventor of box kite in 1893 and kite train in 1884 ) and French Captain Saconney.

Warington Baden-Powell is also the author of Canoe Travelling: Log of a Cruise on the Baltic, and Practical Hints on Building and Fitting Canoes London, Smith, Elder, 1871.

She was also the aunt of Peter Baden-Powell, 2nd Baron Baden-Powell and Betty Clay, and the great-aunt of Robert Baden-Powell, 3rd Baron Baden-Powell and Michael Baden-Powell.

It was also the wish of Baden-Powell to wrest control of Scouting from his book's publishers as it was felt the Movement was not given the status it deserved as the publishers controlled membership of Scouting.

There were also many girls who wanted the same thing as well – Baden-Powell came across a group of Girl Scouts at the Crystal Palace Rally in 1909.

He was also the brother of Agnes Baden-Powell, George Baden-Powell, and Baden Baden-Powell, the son of Baden Powell, the uncle of Peter Baden-Powell, 2nd Baron Baden-Powell and Betty Clay, and the great-uncle of Robert Baden-Powell, 3rd Baron Baden-Powell and Michael Baden-Powell.

The smaller neighbourhood around Gloucester Road tube station can also be considered part of South Kensington, as well as the institution area around Exhibition Road, which includes such famous names as the Natural History Museum, the Science Museum, the Royal Albert Hall, Imperial College London, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Royal Geographical Society, the Royal College of Art, the Royal College of Music and Baden-Powell House.

Even though it was supposed to be a " white man's war " Baden-Powell also armed 300 African natives with rifles.

Promoted to the youngest major-general in the army, and awarded the CB, Baden-Powell was also treated as a hero when he finally returned to Britain in 1903.

It was also during these scouting missions in the Matobo Hills that Baden-Powell first started to wear his signature campaign hat like the one worn by Burnham.

While serving in Southern Africa, Baden-Powell learnt many the skills that would become standard scouting skills.

During their joint scouting patrols into the Matobo Hills, Burnham began teaching Baden-Powell woodcraft, inspiring him and giving him the plan for both the program and the code of honor of Scouting for Boys.

Both men recognised that wars in Africa were changing markedly and the British Army needed to adapt ; so during their joint scouting missions, Baden-Powell and Burnham discussed the concept of a broad training programme in woodcraft for young men, rich in exploration, tracking, fieldcraft, and self-reliance.

Baden-Powell thought this would not be attractive and suggested that it could grow much larger when scouting would be used.

He effectively ended the Second Matabele War by assassinating the Ndebele religious leader, Mlimo, but Burnham is best known in this war for teaching American Frontier scouting to Robert Baden-Powell and inspiring him to found the boy scouts.

Robert Baden-Powell recognised the importance of fieldcraft and was inspired to form the scouting movement.

In the early 1900s Baden-Powell began developing the concepts of scouting and he put his theories to the test during the summer of 1907.

Milne returned by way of London, met the founder of scouting -- Sir Robert Baden-Powell and became entranced with the idea.

* 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.

Baden-Powell asked his friend Rudyard Kipling for the use of his Jungle Book history and universe as a motivational frame in cub scouting.

Scouting appeared on the island of Malta very soon after the experimental scouting camp on Brownsea Island was conducted by Robert Baden-Powell in August 1907.

His father, a scouting enthusiast, named him after Robert Baden-Powell.

In mid-June 1896, while scouting in the Matobo Hills, Burnham began teaching Baden-Powell woodcraft and it was here that Burnham inspired and gave Baden-Powell the plan for the program and the code of honor of Scouting for Boys.

Baden-Powell recognised that wars in Africa were changing markedly and the British Army needed to adapt ; so during their joint scouting missions, Baden-Powell and Burnham discussed the concept of a broad training programme in woodcraft for young men, rich in exploration, tracking, fieldcraft, and self-reliance.

However, the organisation remains co-educational, a fact which runs against the origins of scouting method as promulgated by Baden-Powell and maintained by the many Scouting organisations today ( evidence of this fact may be shown in the organisational structure of world scouting: the World Organization of the Scout Movement is separate from the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts ).

The Award Scheme in Australian Scouting consists of Awards for Proficiency in an Adventurous Activity, participation in Major Events, recognition of service, Gallantry and Meritorious Service, and for the practice of scouting ( Queen's Scout, Baden-Powell Award, etc.

Jan Grootboom, a Xhosa from South Africa, was a military scout who Baden-Powell praised for his scouting ability in the Matabele Campaign.

Baden-Powell, the founder of scouting, approached Reader and persuaded him to produce another show in 1933.

In his original book on boy scouting, Baden-Powell introduced the Scout Promise, as follows:

In fact, Baden-Powell wrote his original military training book, Aids To Scouting, because he saw the need for the improved training of British military-enlisted scouts, particularly in initiative, self-reliance, and observational skills.

The Baden-Powell Scouts retain the belief that essence of the movement should be based on outdoor activities related to the skills of explorers, backwoodsmen and frontiersmen.

At the time, Baden-Powell intended that the scheme would be used by established organizations, in particular the Boys ' Brigade, from the founder William A. Smith.

The Siege of Mafeking lasted 217 days from October 1899 to May 1900, and turned Robert Baden-Powell into a national hero.

Baden-Powell got the idea from his experiences with the British Army in South Africa.

This was the most impressive achievement to date of any of the French pioneer aviators, causing Patrick Alexander to write to Major Baden Baden-Powell, president of the Royal Aeronautical Society, " I got back from Paris last night.

Lord Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting and the Chief Scout of the World, would gather some of the ashes and mix them in a cup of water for all scouts to drink from.

This use of the book's universe was approved by Kipling after a direct petition of Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scouting movement, who had originally asked for the author's permission for the use of the Memory Game from Kim in his scheme to develop the morale and fitness of working-class youths in cities.

She was the wife of the Founder, Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell and lived from 1889 to 1977.

From 1 August until 8 August 1907, Robert Baden-Powell held the first experimental Scout camp on the island for 22 boys from differing social backgrounds.

The Baden-Powell Trail runs 50 kilometres from Horseshoe Bay to Deep Cove.

Baden-Powell and Hungarian head of state, Regent Horthy, addressed the Scouts from the grandstand built to accommodate over 5000 guests during an opening ceremony at the rally ground.

1st Lechlade Scout Group can trace its origins back to 1915 when Robert Baden-Powell inspected Scouts from Lechlade and the surrounding area.

The roots of The Scout Association come from the fame of Robert Baden-Powell following his exploits during the Second Boer War.

Beads from Dinuzulu's necklace, captured by Robert Baden-Powell, were later presented to Scout leaders following Wood Badge leadership training.

In Italy, Mussolini had assigned Renato Ricci, deputy-secretary of Education, the task of " reorganizing the youth from a moral and physical point of view ", for which he sought inspiration from Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting.

It took place at the town of Mafeking ( now Mahikeng ) in South Africa over a period of 217 days, from October 1899 to May 1900, and turned Robert Baden-Powell, who went on to found the Scouting Movement, into a national hero.

Shortly before the outbreak of the Second Boer War in 1899, Lord Wolseley, Commander-in-Chief of the British Army, who had failed to persuade the British government to send troops to the region, instead sent Colonel ( later Lord ) Baden-Powell, accompanied by a handful of officers, to the Cape Colony to raise two Regiments of Mounted Rifles from Rhodesia.

Noticing the Boers had failed to remove any of the rails, Baden-Powell had an armoured train from the Mafeking railyard loaded with sharpshooters and sent up the rail line in a daring attack right into the heart of the Boer camp, followed by a safe return to Mafeking.

He was appointed Chief Commissioner of the Boy Scouts in 1932, was deputy Chief Scout from 1935 to 1941, and was designated by Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout Movement, who had been Chief Scout of the World, as his successor as Chief Scout.

Hargrave was promptly expelled from the Scouts by Scout founder Robert Baden-Powell.

Baden-Powell expelled Hargrave with extreme reluctance, and only after some wealthy backers had threatened to withdraw funding from the Scouts unless he was expelled.

While living in England he had known Robert Baden-Powell who founded the Scout Movement, from whom he had received an autographed copy of Scouting for Boys.