Baden-Powell, Robert

has biography | a une biographie: British Army officer and founder of the worldwide Scout Movement. Baden-Powell fought in a number of colonial conflicts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including the Anglo-Ashanti wars, the Second Matabele War, and the Second Boer War. During the Matabele War, Baden-Powell came under legal scrutiny when he was accused of illegally approving the execution of Uwini, the Matabele chief, who was being held as a prisoner-of-war by the British. Baden-Powell's conduct in the Second Boer War has also attracted controversy over his role in the deaths of Africans during the Siege of Mafeking, many of whom were denied rations.

Baden-Powell's military experience from these colonial wars later inspired his work Scouting for Boys (1908), which lay the foundation stone for the worldwide Scout Movement. The movement played an important part in the imperial education of young boys and girls in twentieth-century Britain, and was shaped by contemporary debates around the role of race, gender, class, militarism, nationhood, and empire in constructing British citizenship.
was born | est né: 22 February 1857
died in | est mort par: 8 January 1941
has nationality | a la nationalité: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
has type | est de type: depicted

is referred to by | est référencé par: Wikipedia; Art UK; National Portrait Gallery; Timothy H. Parsons, Race, Resistance, and the Boy Scout Movement in British Colonial Africa (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2004); Denis Judd and Keith Surridge, The Boer War: A History (London: Bloomsbury, 2019), pp. 151-158.

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