" General Robert Baden-Powell, later founder of the Boy Scouts, drastically cut African rations in an attempt to spare not just his own men but any white civilians trapped in the town with them. His plan was to starve the native population until they were forced to break out of the besieged city in search of food, thus reducing the number of mouths to feed. "

― Candice Millard , Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill