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Their deaths, and many more deaths would follow,
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helped tie together the idea of scouting with service to the nation.
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A magazine called The Captain--again,
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this is part of the culture of imperialism
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and of aggressive nationalism--
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had a troop of mobile scouts on bikes fitted with a rifle bucket
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and a clip to carry a carbine, a rifle.
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So, it shifts.
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The image of all of this shifts from Africa,
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where much of the fighting was already over,
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and indigenous people destroyed or pacified,
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to the European enemies against whom the next war would be fought.