On 3/3/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman(a)spamcop.net> wrote:
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 20:11:36 +0000, you wrote:
Looking at the references section of the article
and
comparing it to the contents page of Jeal's book at Amazon, I see that
he devotes a whole chapter, 35 pages in a relatively brief biography,
to the question.
Yes, 35 pages of a large book. Here, it's about 30% of our entire
coverage of the subject.
Actually the book is only a little over 200 pages in length, so the
chapter is a substantial fraction of the book.
I don't think it's even remotely correct to state that the article
comprises 35% of all our coverage of Powell. Besides the Scout
movement itself, Baden-Powell is most famous in Britain for his
masterly defense of Mafeking, a garrison which, outnumbered 4:1, he
held against the Boers for over 200 days with the help of a home made
howitzer, a great quantity of non-existent barbed wire, some fake
landmines and a biscuit tin. And if you think that sounds like
something out of Black Adder, maybe you'll understand the brilliance
of the tactician. The Boers gave up because they concluded that the
garrison was too heavily defended.