Founder![]() On his return from Africa in 1903, Robert Baden-Powell found that his military training manual, Aids to Scouting, had become a best-seller, and was being used by teachers and youth organizations. Following his involvement in the Boys' Brigade as Brigade Secretary and Officer in charge of its scouting section, Baden-Powell decided to re-write Aids to Scouting to suit a youth readership. In August 1907 he held a camp for twenty-two boys of mixed social background to test out the applicability of his ideas. Scouting for Boys was subsequently published in six installments in 1908. Boys and girls spontaneously formed Scout troops and the Scouting Movement had inadvertently started, first as a national, and soon an international obsession. [The above paragraphs taken from wikipedia.org] |
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