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===Worldwide spread=== The Boy Scout Movement swiftly established itself throughout the [[British Empire]]. By 1908, Scouts were established in [[Scouting and Guiding in Gibraltar|Gibraltar]], [[Scout Association of Malta|Malta]], [[Scouting and Guiding in Canada|Canada]], [[Scouting and Guiding in Australia|Australia]], [[Scouting and Guiding in New Zealand|New Zealand]], [[British Malaya|Malaya]] (YMCA Experimental Troop in Penang) and [[Scouts South Africa|South Africa]]. In 1909 Chile was possibly the first country outside the British dominions to have a national Scout organization. By 1910, Argentina, Denmark, [[Grand Duchy of Finland|Finland]], France, [[German Empire|Germany]], [[Kingdom of Greece (Glücksburg)|Greece]], [[British Raj|India]], Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the United States had Boy Scouts.<ref name="bsahist97">{{cite web |last=Snowden |first=Jeff |year=1984 |url=http://www.troop97.net/bsahist1.htm |title=A Brief Background of Scouting in the United States 1910 to Today |publisher=Troop 97 |access-date=July 22, 2006}}</ref><ref name="scoutbase">{{cite web |url=http://www.scoutbase.org.uk/library/history/ |title=The History of Scouting |publisher=ScoutBaseUK |access-date=July 22, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070818201813/http://www.scoutbase.org.uk/library/history/ |archive-date=August 18, 2007 }}</ref> [[File:Vazken Andréassian HoMenEtMen-Sgaoudagan doghantsk Konstantinobolis 1918.jpg|thumb|upright|left|First procession of Armenian scouts in Constantinople in 1918]]
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