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	Siege of Mafeking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The lifting of the Siege of Mafeking was a decisive victory for the British and a crushing defeat for the Boers.
		Mafeking was first shelled on the October 16 after Baden-Powell ignored Cronje's 9 o'clock deadline to surrender.
		Fake landmines were laid around the town in view of the Boers and their spies within the town, and his soldiers were ordered to simulate avoiding barbed wire (non-existent) when moving between trenches; guns and a searchlight (improvised from an acetylene lamp and biscuit tin) were moved around the town to increase their apparent number.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Siege_of_Mafeking (982 words)

	The Siege of Mafeking - The Boer War
		Pakenham cites Pieters as being the battle at which a British commander, surprisingly Buller, developed a modern form of battlefield tactics: heavy artillery bombardments co-ordinated to permit the infantry to advance under their protection.
		Among the personalities in besieged Mafeking was Lady Sarah Wilson, aunt of Winston Churchill, in South Africa with her army officer husband.
		For the rest of the siege Lady Sarah’s bunker was the social focus of the besieged town and she herself an active member of the garrison.
	www.britishbattles.com /great-boer-war/mafeking.htm (1722 words)

	1900 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		February 23 - Second Boer War: Battle of Hart's Hill - In South Africa the Boers and British troops battle.
		April 22 - French forces defeat and kill Rabih az-Zubayr in the battle of Kousséri, thus guaranteeing French domination of Chad.
		May 23 - Sergeant William Harvey Carney becomes the first African American to be awarded the Medal of Honor (awarded for heroism in the Battle of Fort Wagner during the American Civil War).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1900 (2697 words)

	McGonagall Online: The Relief of Mafeking
		When, as expected, war broke out in October that year, Baden-Powell was in the town of Mafeking with a garrison of a thousand men some 250 miles from the nearest reinforcements.
		As the trench lines drew closer a battle of snipers and improvised hand grenades ensued, as bitter as anything to be found on the Western Front a decade and a half later.
		Battle of Mafeking - An early movie reconstruction of the battle, filmed in 1900
	www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk /poems/mpgmafeking.htm (1292 words)

	1899 - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		October 11 - Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State erupts.
		December 2 - Philippine-American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.
		November 24 - Abdallahi ibn Muhammad, Sudanese political and religious leader (killed in battle) (b.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/1899 (1146 words)

	Commissioner's Corner, Commissioner Service, Boy Scouts of America, Last Frontier Council, Oklahoma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Then the siege of Mafeking, during the Boer War in South Africa, taught him what boys could do when their courage and manliness were appealed to.
		Additionally, the British were successful in the battle of Mafeking and that success was directly related to the communications provided by the boy Cadet Corps.
		Then he remembered the boy Cadet Corps of Mafeking, and asked himself why the boys of England could not be organized for service in peace times as well as in war.
	www.lastfrontiercouncil.org /commissioner/corner-10-05.htm (762 words)

	Sir Robert Baden-Powell
		It was to the 5th Dragoon Guards that B.-P. gave his first training in Scouting and awarded soldiers reaching certain standards a badge based on the north point of the compass.
		In 1899 came Mafeking, the most notable episode in his outstanding military career, by which he became a Major-General at the age of only 43.
		Following Mafeking, B.-P. was given the task of organising the South African Constabulary and it was not until 1903 that he returned to England as Inspector General of Cavalry and found that his book, Aids to Scouting'was being used by youth leaders and teachers all over the country.
	user.aol.com /randywoo/bsahis/b-p.htm (2334 words)

	BSA Troop 30, Twin River Council - Baden-Powell
		One of Baden-Powell's more famous battles was the Battle of Mafeking.
		This battle was between the defenders of Mafeking and the enemy Boers, war-like natives.
		As the hero of Mafeking, people were always giving him awards and attention that he didn't think he needed.
	home.nycap.rr.com /t30/Baden-Powell.htm (1368 words)

	The African Seeds of Scouting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Warner Goodyear - the boy on the Mafeking stamp
		The Scout uniform and the South African Constabulary
		The African Seeds of Scouting is assembled by Ian Webb
	www.scouting.org.za /seeds (36 words)

	Battle of Mafeking Encyclopedia Articles @ HollywoodBlockbuster.com (Hollywood Blockbuster) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
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	Some Scout History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Their movements were finally merged in the Scouts, because they found full scope and best chances for development in a single organization about 1910 (The Boys Scouts of America).
		His experience in India and among the Zulus in South Africa had made him a firm believer in the "School of the Wild" as a training place for the best sort of young manhood, and he longed to see the boys of England as self-reliant, quick to help, and well disciplined as the Zulu boys.
		He was quoated as saying in the Pall Mall Magazine: "In Mafeking our boys showed that boys can be of value in a crisis.
	www.rose.edu /faculty/gjackson/ssh.htm (1512 words)

	The Fathers of Scouting
		These were Dutch settlers who were resisting British rule.
		Baden-Powell and about 1,000 new soldiers were in a sleepy little town called Mafeking when 9,000 Boers attacked.
		He used tricks to make the Boers think he had a much bigger force.
	www.scatacook.org /Fathers-of-Scouting.htm (1741 words)

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	The Toby Press: Chains Around the Grass by Naomi Ragen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Instead, her fingers dug vengefully into the new upholstery, trying-but failing— to make a hole.
		For years to come, her peace sacrificed to well-meaning fools who couldn’t bear to watch a child see its father buried, she will look out windows, searching for him, like Shirley Temple in The Little Princess watching for soldiers back from the battle of Mafeking.
		But unlike Shirley, she will not stamp her little foot and shake her pretty curls, adorably insisting:
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