Biography Robert Powell

The son of the Anglican priest, a professor at the University of Oxford, who died when Baden-Powella was three years old. Mother-daughter of Admiral U. Smith-and the sister of the astronomer C. Smith-the son of the first designer of the steam locomotive J., Getting with his brothers and sisters, first home education, which included regular physical exercises and hardening in the fresh air, the boy graduated from primary school in the Tangbridge-Ueles County Kent, and then a prestigious secondary educational institution Charterhaus in London.

During the training period, he manifested himself early as a person who possessed many talents. In addition to success in various sports, especially football, Baden-Powell regularly participated in tourist campaigns, and during the holidays he sailed on a yacht and canoe. He also played well on the piano and the violin, painted perfectly and acted as an actor in school amateur performances.

It was then that friends gave him the nickname Bi-Pi, which later became the famous scouts of the world known to all. In the city of Baden-Pawell, he entered the service of the hussar regiment, which was deployed in the territory of Hindustan. He successfully served as a military intelligence officer, on the instructions of the command under the guise of a collector of exotic butterflies of a trip to study the fortifications of a potential enemy.

Robert Baden-Powell. National Portrait Gallery, London.

He presented the accumulated experience and impressions of the implementation of secret missions in his first book “Intelligence and Scouting” “Reconnaissance and Scouting”, in - GG. Smith -, Governor of Malta - Burnham, who introduced him to the history and folklore of the submissive era with immigrants of the Wild West. Baden-Pawell became the youngest colonel of Brevet Colonel of the British army, having received this rank in a special order.

The glory of the national hero was brought to him by the organization of the defense of the fortified town of Masting now mafikeng during the Anglo-Broke War-GG. To withstand the siege before the approach of the forces aimed to release the maneuver, various military tricks allowed. Many of them were invented by the head of the defense, who often personally carried out reconnaissance raids on the rear of the enemy.

It was Baden-Pawell who managed to arrange five minefields so that the besiegers could not secretly, in the dark, break through the British defense, and also applied barbed wire fences in world military history. During the siege, Baden-Powell managed to attract adolescents from the local cadet corps to cooperate, which assisted the defenders of the man-defending as messengers, signalmen and orderlies.

Gubert von Hercmer. Portrait of Robert Baden-Powella. The actions of Baden-Pauwell throughout the epic with the siege of maneuing received an enthusiastic assessment of the British newspapers, although the military command reacted quite restrained to them. Nevertheless, in August, Baden-Powell was produced in Major General became the youngest owner of this title.

After returning to his homeland in October, the completion of hostilities in the city in E. Baden-Pawell first published an intelligence textbook, and then gained worldwide fame, the book “Scouting for Boys” “Scouting for Boys” in six parts of the 1st edition photo: H. Walter Barnett. Baden-Pawell managed to summarize all the previous experience of front-line intelligence, setting it out in the exciting form of practical training of young trackers, both boys and girls.

Already in the city, after the world tour, committed by Baden-Powell in the city with the outbreak of World War I, Baden-Powell offered his services to the British military ministry, but on the recommendation of the king, he continued to lead the Scout organizations in the British Isles. After the war ended, he was the organizer of the world festivals of the scouts, the first of which took place in the city later they took place in various countries until this time, the number of scouts totaled more than 2 million boys and girls.

Robert Baden-Powell at a meeting of scouts. June, the merits of Baden-Pauwell were marked by King George V, who first made him to the baronets, and then granted the title of Baron Baden-Pauella Gillelsky in memory of the town, where the first meeting of the British scouts took place. In totalitarian states, scout organizations were prohibited, since they distracted young people from participating in patriotic movements.

Using the experience of scouting, these states created their national youth movements of the Hitler Youth in the Third Reich, Balilla in fascist Italy. The forms and methods of the scout movement influenced the pioneer organization in the USSR. The last years of his life with Baden-Pawell spent with his wife Lady Olav Baden-Powell-in the Kenyan town of Nieri with a view of the tropical forests and snowy peaks.

He was buried in the St. Petersburg cemetery in Nieri. Peru Baden-Pauwell owns 32 books, many of which have turned into desktop benefits for young intelligence officers of all countries of the world. Baden-Pawell was repeatedly nominated for the Nobel Prize of the World. His name is assigned to the mountain peaks in California and Nepal.According to the BBC survey in the city of Sergeyev Evgeny Yuryevich.

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