The siege of Mafeking was a 217-day siege battle for the town of Mafeking (now called Mahikeng) in South Africa during the Second Boer War from October...
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Sarah Wilson (war correspondent) (category Dames of Grace of the Order of St John)
1929) became one of the first woman war correspondents in 1899, when she was recruited by Alfred Harmsworth to cover the Siege of Mafeking for the Daily...
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Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (redirect from Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell)
Africa, Baden-Powell successfully defended the town in the Siege of Mafeking. Several of his books, written for military reconnaissance and scout training...
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Jacobus Philippus Snyman (category South African Republic military personnel of the Second Boer War)
came to international prominence as the military commander at the Siege of Mafeking from November 1899 to May 1900. Born during the Great Trek, General...
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Gordon Chesney Wilson (category Duke of Wellington's Regiment officers)
Baden-Powell at the start of the Second Boer War, in which role he served through the Siege of Mafeking. He was created a Member of the Royal Victorian Order...
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by much larger celebrations after the siege of Mafeking. There were four Victoria Crosses awarded during the siege: John Norwood on 30 October 1899, at...
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Mafeking or Mahikeng is the capital of the North West province of South Africa. Mafeking may also refer to: Mafeking, Victoria, a locality near Willaura...
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The Little Princess (1939 film) (category Aftermath of war)
new characters and storylines and used the Second Boer War and the siege of Mafeking as a backdrop to the action. Temple and Arthur Treacher had a musical...
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The Mafeking Cadet Corps was a group of boy cadets formed by Lord Edward Cecil shortly before the 217 day Siege of Mafeking in South Africa during the...
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