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Adrian Carton de Wiart first saw combat with the British Army during the Boer War in South Africa from 1899 to 1902. (Wikimedia Commons) Strong of mind and body -- he once ripped apart a deck of ...

During the summer of 1899, Colonel Robert Baden-Powell of the British Army found himself in a pickle. He’d been put in charge of making sure the British Empire retained its settlements in South ...