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"A Night Sortie from Mafeking"

From a contemporary drawing by R. Caton Woodville
in Eileen K. Wade, Baden-Powell, London, 1944


This drawing of "A Night Sortie from Mafeking" was most likely done as a newspaper illustration. While perhaps a bit idealized and melodramatic, it is typical of reporting and illustration in the news of the day.


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Baden-Powell provides his own narrative of his assignment to South Africa in 1899, and the defense and relief of Mafeking in 1899-1900 in Chapter VII of Lessons from the Varsity of Life: The South African War
E. E. Reynolds tells the story of Mafeking in his biography, Baden-Powell, The Story of His Life.
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