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After forming a cadet corps of boys for assisting as noncombatants during a military campaign in 1900: We then made the discovery that boys, when trusted and relied on, were just as capable and reliable as men.

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Robert Baden-Powell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1857
Born: February 22
Died: 1941
Died: January 8
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