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	Henri-Guillaume Dufour, Switzerland (1787-1875) - Hall of Freedom - Politics - Liberalism
		Together with Henry Dunant he played an essential role in the creation of the precursors to contemporary humanitarian law.
		Dufour lent his active moral support to Dunant and chaired the 1864 Diplomatic Conference.
		Sixteen states attended the conference which adopted the Geneva convention for the amelioration of the condition of the wounded in armies in the field.
	www.liberal-international.org /editorial.asp?ia_id=950 (129 words)

	From the battle of Solferino to the eve of the First World War
		On that day, a citizen of Geneva, Switzerland, Henry Dunant, was travelling to the area to meet Napoleon III on personal matters.
		Henry Dunant's book was a huge success; it was translated into virtually all the European languages and read by the most influential people of his time.
		From the outset it saw that the volunteers envisaged by Henry Dunant could act effectively, without risking rejection by officers and soldiers, only if they could be told apart from ordinary civilians by a distinctive emblem and were protected from the fighting.
	www.icrc.org /web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList288/FAFDE5C21CBC5ACDC1256B66005B0E39 (1106 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Dufour, Guillaume Henri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		DUFOUR, GUILLAUME HENRI [Dufour, Guillaume Henri], 1787-1875, Swiss general.
		He served in the French army under Napoleon I, and in 1847 he led the Swiss federal forces to victory against the Sonderbund.
		Dufour presided over the first Geneva Convention, which established (1864) the International Red Cross.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/D/Dufour-G.asp (152 words)

	Guillaume Dufour
		Dufour left the army in 1817 and moved to Switzerland where he supervised the construction of public works in Geneva.
		Dufour was appointed president while Henri Dunant, Gustave Moynier, Thomas Maunoir, and Louis Appia agreed to serve as board members.
		In 1864 Dufour, Henri Dunant, Gustave Moynier, Thomas Maunoir, and Louis Appia organized an international conference of 13 nations in Geneva to discuss the possibility of making warfare more "humane".
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /EUdufour.htm (1481 words)

	100 years Peace Palace Library > author: dunant
		In 1859 he witnessed the horrible scenes at the battlefield of Solferino (in the northern part of Italy), where the French armies, together with the Italians, fought the Austrians in one of the bloodiest battles of the nineteenth century.
		Dunant and three others were appointed, among them General Guillaume Henri Dufour, a Swiss general (1817-1875), who already in 1847 in his campaigns during the Swiss cantonal war ordered his soldiers to spare the wounded, the prisoners and defenseless.
		Through the memories of Henri Dunant, the first conference proceedings, the Geneva Conventions of 1949, the 1977 Protocols, the publications of the Henri Dunant Institute in Geneva, and of course the complete set of the Revue internationale de la Croix-Rouge, starting in 1919, the library collection offers access to everyone interested in humanitarian law.
	www.ppl.nl /100years/author.php?subject=peacepalace&aulast=dunant (378 words)

	Switzerland
		General Henri-Guillaume Dufour, charged with training a small federal cadre of troops in 1817, simultaneously championed the idea of a federal flag for Switzerland.
		The last such flag was carried by General Henri Guisan during the mobilisation of 1939-1945.
		Dufour's federal flag, proposed in 1817, first flown in 1821, adopted in Aargau in 1833, and in the whole Army in 1840.
	www.fotw.net /flags/ch.html (2547 words)

	Guillaume (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This emblem from Geneva, is assigned to the general Guillaume-Henri Dufour, that reduced the Swiss cantons' revolt in 1847.
		It represents the military strength: the red of the right field shows strength and the impetus; the silvery (here in grey) on the left field indicates serenity and nobility.
		The lineage of Guillaume-Henri Dufour is specially present in Switzerland.
	www.dufour.royaume.com /ang_guillaume_henri_suisse.htm (72 words)

	Cartographica Helvetica 11 (1995) 11-17: Summary
		He was appointed as an officer and surveyor by the future general Guillaume Henri Dufour.
		It was Dufour personally, favouring him in the beginning, who eventually gave him poor qualifications.
		The large-sized (94 x 80 cm) monochrome map in the 1:60 000 scale was used in parts as a base for the subsequent topographic map series 1:100 000 of Switzerland (known as 'Dufour map').
	www.stub.unibe.ch /dach/ch/ch/summaries/e11b.html (282 words)

	Sonderbund
		The Radical majority in the federal diet declared the Sonderbund dissolved (1847) and shortly afterward sent an army, under Gen. Guillaume Henri Dufour, against the separatist forces.
		The Society of Jesus was banned from Switzerland, and the establishment of new religious houses was forbidden.
		Guillaume Henri Dufour - Dufour, Guillaume Henri, 1787–1875, Swiss general.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/history/A0845919.html (280 words)

	Swiss history - history of Switzerland : The Sonderbund War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Dufour is best remembered for his successful generalship during the Sonderbund war, but he was also an outstanding mathematician, engineer and cartographer.
		In 1838 he founded the Federal Office of Topography (still the office responsible for map production) and it was under his direction that the first complete topographical map of Switzerland was published in 1865 to international acclaim.
		The federal troops, led by the conservative Henri Dufour, were anxious to move quickly before the European powers could intervene.
	www.swissworld.org /eng/swissworld.html?siteSect=808&sid=4102969&rubricId=16080 (236 words)

	History and origin
		In 1862 Dunant published his recollection of this experience as A Memory of Solferino and remained convinced that the power of humanity could be engaged to alleviate suffering on a global scale.
		In Geneva in October 1863 under the leadership of Henry Dunant, Gustave Moynier, General Guillaume-Henri Dufour, Dr Louis Appia and Dr Theodore Maunoir set up the International Committee for Relief to the Wounded.
		It was Henry Davison, President of the American Red Cross War Committee, who first proposed forming a federation.
	www.jamaicaredcross.org /historyandorigin.html (665 words)

	Cartographica Helvetica 1 (1990) 2-17: Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Under the strict management of General Guillaume Henri Dufour, the different cantons finally achieved their 2nd-order triangulation, the detail triangulation, and the topographical survey.
		The limits of the 27 ordnance survey maps were given by the boundaries of the municipalities.
		Because of these irregular limits, the maps had to be redrawn several times: once for the 'Dufour map' into 16 sections in the same scale, which in turn served as a guideline for one sheet at the 1:100 000 scale.
	www.stub.unibe.ch /dach/ch/ch/summaries/e01a.html (216 words)

	1859-1899- Canadian Red Cross
		He was horrified by what he saw: for want of adequate medical services in both armies, thousands of wounded soldiers were left to suffer untended, abandoned to their fate.
		On returning to Switzerland, Henry Dunant was unable to forget the terrible scenes he had witnessed.
		This commission - made up of Gustave Moynier, Guillaume-Henri Dufour, Louis Appia, Thodore Maunoir and Dunant himself - met on February 17 and founded the International Committee for Relief to the Wounded in time of war, which later became the International Committee of the Red Cross.
	www.redcross.ca /print.asp?id=007826 (495 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		He was stupefied by the sight that met his eyes: because neither army had an adequate medical corps, thousands of wounded soldiers had been left to die.
		The committee, whose members were Gustave Moynier, Guillaume-Henri Dufour, Louis Appia, Théodore Maunoir and Dunant himself, met on 17 February and founded the International Committee for Relief to the Wounded, the future International Committee of the Red Cross.
		Dunant had two clear ideas: "Would it not be possible, in time of peace and quiet, to form relief societies for the purpose of having care given to the wounded in wartime by zealous, devoted and thoroughly qualified volunteers?"
	www.unesco.org /archives/guide/uk/icrc/historique.html (494 words)

	All you ever wanted to know about the Swiss flag,
		And in 1815, an arm band of red with a white cross began to be worn by all military forces in the field.
		In 1817, Swiss General Henri-Guillaume Dufour proposed a flag very similar to the current flag and it was first flown in 1821, then adopted by Canton Aargau in 1833, and by the Confederation Army in 1840.
		That was the flag flown by Dufour’s federal troops when they suppressed the Sonderbund rebellion of 1847.
	www.peninsulaswissclub.com /swiss_flag.html (553 words)

	Switzerland’s Flag: A symbol of unity and pride - Switzerland BR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		A general in the Switzerland army, General Henri Guillame Dufour, proposed the colors for the Red Cross.
		General Dufour is also credited with introducing the need for a national flag.
		He suggested that while the cantons were interested in flying their own flags, that they would be more inclined to help each other in times of war, whereas if they had a national flag, they would see themselves as one nation.
	switzerland.br.com /article7.html (616 words)

	AllRefer.com - Guillaume Henri Dufour (Swiss History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Guillaume Henri Dufour (Swiss History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Guillaume Henri Dufour[gEyOm´ ANrE´ dUfOOr´] Pronunciation Key, 1787–1875, Swiss general.
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on Guillaume Henri Dufour
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/Dufour-G.html (176 words)

	Four Seasons In Season
		In the course of the next ten years, the waterfront was entirely redesigned by an engineer, Colonel Guillaume-Henri Dufour, whom Swiss history remembers best for his leadership as Commander-in-Chief of the Swiss Federal Army.
		Dufour also designed the Pont des Bergues, which crosses the Rhone in two stages a few yards downriver from the entrance to the Hotel.
		Regarded as an architectural masterpiece, the bridge was expected to help bring about economic development to the right bank of the river.
	www.fourseasons.com /in_season/special_edition_geneva_issue/article_4294.html (880 words)

	GoHastings.com Item Information
		Rodolphe, who has been lusting after Henriette since he first saw her, now has her in his boat and is prepared for action.
		Henri, concerned about what might happen to the girl, makes a deft switch, giving Madame Dufour to his friend and taking Henriette in his own boat.
		Henri and Rodolphe, two young locals, charm the family--which includes Juliette, Henriette's stepmom--and offer to row the women down the river while their men fish.
	www.gohastings.com /catalog/item/item.asp?prodid=33034396 (477 words)

	100 years Peace Palace Library > author:
		Henri Corsier was born in Bourges, studied and took his PhD at the Université de Paris.
		When at the age of 15 he accompanied the leading statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt on an embassy to Henry IV of France, he was received there with great honour and decided to remain to study law at Orléans.
		Isaac Henri Hijmans was born in Arnhem in 1869.
	www.ppl.nl /100years/author.php?subject=peacepalace&aulast=dunant (8260 words)

	The secrets of Geneva’s statues and historic buildings
		In Geneva, just across from the classical Grand-Théatre opera house, there’s an old general on horseback, Guillaume Henri Dufour, who I call the peace general.
		Dufour didn’t charge into battle; he avoided a war.
		Henri Dunant, founder of the Red Cross, was shocked by the 1859 battle of Solferino in the second war of Italian independence, where he saw soldiers left to die on the battlefield.
	www.travellady.com /Issues/September05/1783secretsofGeneva.htm (1800 words)

	Louis Appia
		Guillaume Dufour was to be president while Appia, Henri Dunant, Thomas Maunoir and Gustave Moynier agreed to serve as board members.
		Later, Guillaume Dufour suggested the addition of the Red Cross.
		In the summer of 1864, Appia, Guillaume Dufour, Henri Dunant, Thomas Maunoir and Gustave Moynier, organized an international conference of 13 nations in Geneva to discuss the possibility of making warfare more "humane".
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /EUappia.htm (1404 words)

	Geneva - WOI Encyclopedia Italia
		The altitude of Geneva is 373.6 m, and corresponds to the altitude of the largest of the Pierres du Niton, two large rocks emerging from the lake which date from the last ice age.
		This rock was chosen by General Guillaume Henri Dufour as the reference point for all surveying in Switzerland [1].
		The second main river of Geneva is the Arve River which flows into the Rhône River just west of the city centre.
	www.wheelsofitaly.com /wiki/index.php/Geneva (1310 words)

	Buddhaline: The Four Noble Truths
		Le Tipi Taka (les trois Corbeilles) ou Canon Paali - Michel Henri Dufour
		L’oeil divin, ou ce que voit le Bouddha - Michel Henri Dufour
		They rather think of their own welfare, of that of others, of that of both, and of the welfare of the whole world."
	www.buddhaline.net /article.php3?id_article=359 (830 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Hillary pushes for Jewish Red Cross
		Officially, the organization traces its genesis back to June of 1859, during the War of Italian Unification, when Franco-Sardinian forces clashed with Austrian troops near the small town of Solferino in northern Italy.
		Gustave Moynier, citizen of Geneva, lawyer and chairman of a local charity (the Geneva Public Welfare Society) presented the conclusions of Dunant's work to his society, which established a five-member committee to study the author's proposals.
		This committee, which comprised Moynier, Dunant, Gen. Guillaume-Henri Dufour, Dr. Louis Appia and Dr. Théodore Maunoir was initially called the International Committee for Relief to the Wounded.
	worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=22047 (1323 words)

	City of Geneva - Geneva, the cradle of Humanitarian Law
		The 19th of May 1815, the Act of Union was signed.
		In 1863, Henry Dunant and a few Geneva high officials, among whom were the General Guillaume-Henri Dufour and Gustave Moynier, founded the « International Committee for Relief to the Wounded in time of war » which later became « The International Committee of the Red Cross ».
		The name and the works of the International Movement have always been associated with Geneva.
	www.ville-ge.ch /en/decouvrir/histoire/humanitaire.htm (150 words)

	City of Geneva - The architectural references
		With Giovanni Salucci worked two other architects : Jean-Victor Noblet, from Vaud and Samuel Vaucher from Geneva, who both built the Rath Museum, at the same time as Jean-Pierre Moll.
		In the absence of Mr Eynard, the supervision of the ship-building yard which was held over for three years, was entrusted to Guillaume-Henri Dufour, the future general, but at that time a cantonal engineer and contractorl.
		The residence was equipped with the first kind of central heating: a stove producing hotair.
	www.ville-ge.ch /en/decouvrir/eynard/architecture.htm (210 words)

	Seguin, Marc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Seguin was born in Annonay, Ardèche, and was self-taught in engineering science.
		Seguin's first suspension bridge was built in Geneva in association with Swiss engineer Henri Dufour (1786-1875).
		Over the next 20 years, Seguin and his brothers erected cable suspension bridges in France, beginning with one over the river Rhône at Tournon in 1827.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/S/Seguin/1.html (166 words)

	renoir's day in the country (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Dufours after eating: Madame Dufour wants a stroll in the woods
		Dufour and Anatole fishing as the boats go by: "Do as you wish, but keep quiet."
		Henri at the river bank: Watches Henriette row away; Camera pulls back to the water
	home.nc.rr.com /jhartzog/renoirdayinc.html (387 words)

	New Civ: Switzerland - Civilization Fanatics' Forums
		Dufour excelled in military (Sonderbundskrieg), in social ideas (Red Cross), and generally represents an united Switzerland.
		Guisan is more recent and his politics are highly disputed (come on, the reduit was a total sinking of money).
		Dufour somehow was a similar personality while guisan is only known for the reduit, but that could have also been just the military "generals".
	forums.civfanatics.com /showthread.php?t=157360 (1858 words)

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