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The Red Cross will be one hundred years old this year

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Frédéric Siordet
Frédéric Siordet*
Affiliation:
Vice-President of the International Committee of the Red Cross Chairman of the Commission for the Red Cross Centenary in Switzerland
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Extract

On June 24, 1859, 30 to 40,000 wounded lay uncared for on the battle-field of Solferino at the mercy of the heat, looters and birds of prey. Henry Dunant was an accidental witness of this disaster and he was so shocked by the suffering and so scandalized by the inadequacy of the medical services that he improvised a relief action with the help of some local country women.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 3 , Issue 22 , January 1963 , pp. 4 - 6
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1963

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