What wars did Robert baden Powell fight in?

Answer 1

Powell served in the British Army from 1876 until 1910 in India and Africa. during that time he served in the following wars:

Anglo-Ashanti Wars,

Second Matabele War,

Siege of Mafeking,

Second Boer War

Answer 2

Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (1857 - 1941) was an accomplished soldier who first came to wide public notice as the 'hero of the Siege of Mafeking'(1899 - 1900) during the Boer War. He is better known as the founder of the Boy Scout movement. This achievement and his concern with 'old values' has sometimes obscured the innovational nature of his educational thinking. What is overlooked is his concern with the social lives and imagination of young people, and how he was able to build on this to develop an associational educational form. Robert Baden-Powell placed a special value on adventure; on children and young people working together - and taking responsibility (his 'patrol' building on the idea of 'natural' friendship groups and 'gangs'); on developing self-sufficiency; and on 'learning through doing' (he was deeply suspicious of curriculum forms). In this article we examine some of the key aspects of his approach.