Boy Scouts

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
politics Constance Countess Markievicz
Constance, Countess Markievicz, founded Fianna Eireann , an organization similar to the Boy Scouts though more explicitly nationalist and militaristic.
Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora, 1988.
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Timeline

25 July 1907: Robert Baden-Powell founded the Boy Scout...

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25 July 1907

Robert Baden-Powell founded the Boy Scout movement. Its purpose was to teach outdoor survival and character building through an approach which moved its learners through successive levels of skills.
Seymour, David, and Emily Seymour, editors. A Century of News. Contender Books, 2003.

1910: Robert Baden-Powell and his sister Agnes...

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1910

Robert Baden-Powell and his sister Agnes established the Girl Guides as a sister organization to the Boy Scouts .
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
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Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
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“History: A Living Story”. World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS): About WAGGGS: How It All Began.
WAGGS online
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell

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