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Last updated on April 22, 2025.

Frederick Russell Burnham DSO was an American scout and world-traveling adventurer. He is known for his service to the British South Africa Company and to the British Army in colonial Africa, and for teaching woodcraft to Robert Baden-Powell in Rhodesia. He helped inspire the founding of the international Scouting Movement.

May 11, 1861 - September 1, 1947

Source: Wikipedia

As far as we can look back into history, the downfall of any nation can be traced from the moment that nation became timid about spending its best blood.