[DOC] [TLE] Siege of Mafeking - Wikipedia [PAR] The Siege of Mafeking was a 217-day siege battle for the town of Mafeking (now 
called Mahikeng) in South Africa during the Second Boer War ... Baden-Powell 
later claimed his forces were barely trained and he was aware of the Boers' ... 
that the best way to tie down Boer troops would be through defence rather than 
attack. [DOC] [TLE] Lord Baden Powell biography -Biography Online [PAR] Lord Baden Powell (1857-1941) was a British general and founder of the modern 
Scouting ... He became a national hero during the Boer war of 1899-1900 when, 
with a small garrison, he commanded the defence of Mafeking. ... He retired from 
the Scouting movement in 1937, in his last letter to the Scouts, he wrote. [DOC] [TLE] South African War | Britannica.com [PAR] List of articles about History / Age of Revolutions / South African War. ... a national 
hero for his 217-day defense of Mafeking (now Mafikeng) in the South African 
War of 18991902; he later became famous as founder of the Boy Scouts and ... 
until his flight to Europe in 1900, after the outbreak of the South African (Boer) 
War. [DOC] [TLE] South African War - 2 | Britannica.com [PAR] Results 1 - 32 of 32 ... ... who became a national hero for his 217-day defense of Mafeking (now 
Mafikeng) in the South African War of 18991902; he later became... [DOC] [TLE] Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell ... [PAR] He retired from the army in 1910 to devote all his time to the Boy Scouts, and in 
the ... Robert (later Lord) Baden-Powell founded the Girl Guides in Great Britain 
in ... in the British Army during the Boer, or South African, War (1899-1902), he 
led a ... 1,200 men in the 217-day defense of Mafeking and became a national 
hero. [DOC] [TLE] B-P - Chief Scout of the World - Facebook [PAR] Best known during his military career for his spirited defense of the small South ... 
Mafeking during the Boer War, he was soon to be propelled to extraordinary fame 
as ... B-P was given his first lessons by his mother and later attended Rose Hill 
School, ... Returning home in 1903 he found that he had become a national hero. [DOC] [TLE] Col. Robert Baden-Powell commanded the defense of Mafeking ... [PAR] ... the defense of Mafeking during the Boer War, and later founded the Boy Scouts
. ... and made a national hero of the town's commander Colonel Baden-Powell .... 
Presumably just getting in was too easy, so he decided that in his free time,... [DOC] [TLE] McGonagall Online  The Relief of Mafeking [PAR] They made the Boers fly from Mafeking like sheep escaping from a pen. ... And 
during the siege Colonel Baden was cheerful and gay, ... and orderlies, releasing 
men to fight on the front line  the original boy scouts. ... Baden-Powell was a 
national hero, a celebrity that he was later to build upon as founder of the scout... [DOC] [TLE] The truth about Baden-Powell and the Boy Scouts - The Freethinker [PAR] Nov 1, 2007 ... As founder of the Boy Scouts he had been showered during his own ... was 
largely an attempt to defend the integrity of the Boer War hero, ... to depict Baden-
Powell as a saint and a hero, and his later detractors, ... Baden-Powell was 
certainly no hero, for all recent studies of the Mafeking episode and... [DOC] [TLE] First World War.com - Feature Articles - The Most Popular War in ... [PAR] (Later Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell) ... According to the potted biography in my 
edition of Scouting for Boys he seems to have been used ... (His talents in this 
direction were an important resource during the Mafeking siege). ... The outcome 
of this siege made him a national hero and brought him promotion to Major-
General. [DOC] [TLE] A Story Of Robert Baden-Powell | Arina's Self Help Blog [PAR] Nov 27, 2012 ...

Question: A national hero for his defense of Mafeking during the Boer War, he later founded the Boy Scouts
Answer: Robert Baden-Powell