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Florence Nightingale

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Angela, Countess of Limerick
Angela, Countess of Limerick
Affiliation:
Chairman of the Standing Committee of the International Red Cross
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Extract

In 1872 Henry Dunant, on a visit to London, read a paper on the work of the Red Cross. His first words were:—“Though I am known as the Founder of the Red Cross, and the originator of the Conventions of Geneva, it was an Englishwoman to whom all the honour of that Convention is due. What inspired me was the work of Miss Florence Nightingale…”

Type
An Anniversary Celebration
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 10 , Issue 110 , May 1970 , pp. 237 - 240
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1970

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