Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell

By Hernandez Felipe Andy Yunueth

  • He was born

    in London, England

  • Known for

    its use of observation balloons in the war in Bechuanaland (new Botswana) and Sudan.

  • British Army officer

    who became a national hero for his 217-day defense of Mafeking (now Mafikeng) in South Africa

  • Defended Mafeking

    holding off a much larger Boer force until the siege was lifted. After the war he recruited

  • After the war

    he recruited and trained the South African constabulary.

  • He was appointed inspector general of cavalry

  • He established the cavalry school

  • He was promoted to Lieutenant General

  • Ran a trial camp

    in Brownsea Island, off Poole, Dorset

  • He founded the Boy Scouts

  • He retired from the army

    to devote all his time to the Boy Scouts

  • He organized the Wolf Clubs

    in Great Britain (Known as Club Scouts in the United States) for boys under the age of 11

  • He was acclaimed chief scout of the world

    At the first international Boy Scouts Jamboree (London),

  • Baden - Pawel was created baron

  • He spent his last years

    in Kenya for his health

  • He died in Nyeri, Kenya