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'We Sat Tight' B.P.

'We Sat Tight' B.P.

[n.d., c.1900.]
Etching. 200 x 140mm.
A semi-caricature portrait of Robert Baden-Powell sitting on a keg of gunpowder, apparently writing his dispatch of November 20th 1899, during the 217-day Seige of Mafeking (1899) in which he which he wrote "The enemy's sentries drew us out Saturday by making a show of going away and leaving a gun, apparently in a state of being dismantled. Our scouts found the enemy in force. So we sat tight". A statue of Robert Baden-Powell is at Poole Quay in Dorset.
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