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	Henry Dunant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jean Henri Dunant (May 8, 1828 in Geneva - October 30, 1910 in Heiden), also known as Henry Dunant or Henri Dunant, was a Swiss businessman and social activist.
		Dunant was born in Geneva as the first son of businessman Jean-Jacques Dunant and his wife Antoinette Dunant-Colladon.
		The Henry Dunant Medal, given every two years by the standing commission of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is its highest decoration.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jean_Henri_Dunant (2778 words)

	Henri Dunant
		Henri Dunant was born in Geneva, Switzerland, on 8th May, 1828.
		In the book Dunant stated that his intention was to promote the "adoption by all civilized nations of an international and sacred principle which would be assured and placed on record by a convention to be concluded between governments.
		Henri Dunant himself saw clearly that the task of the Red Cross would always be a dual one: succor for the victims of war, and the repudiation of war itself.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /EUdunant.htm (2380 words)

	Dunant, Jean Henri on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		An international conference in 1863 led to the conference of 1864 that adopted the Geneva Convention and established the Red Cross.
		Dunant aided other causes and wrote several books.
		Bibliography: See J. Rich, Jean Henri Dunant, Founder of the International Red Cross (1956); V. Libby, Henry Dunant: Prophet of Peace (1964); H. Pandit, The Red Cross and Henry Dunant (1969).
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/D/Dunant-J1.asp (293 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Fabre Jean Henri
		Fabre, Jean Henri (1823-1915), French entomologist, noted for his studies of arthropod behavior.
		Dunant, Jean Henri (1828-1910), Swiss philanthropist and founder of the Red Cross, born in Geneva.
		Dunant was appalled by the condition of the...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Fabre_Jean_Henri.html (117 words)

	Henry Dunant - Biography
		Jean Henri Dunant's life (May 8, 1828-October 30, 1910) is a study in contrasts.
		The Geneva household into which Henri Dunant was born was religious, humanitarian, and civic-minded.
		The author published the original as «J. Henry Dunant», although he is usually referred to as «Henri Dunant».
	nobelprize.org /peace/laureates/1901/dunant-bio.html (1165 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Red Cross
		In 1862, Swiss philanthropist Jean-Henri Dunant wrote an account of the suffering of the wounded in the Battle of Solferino, a decisive engagement in the Franco-Austrian War.
		Dunant urged organizations to care for the wounded, and to remain neutral while doing so.
		In homage to Dunant, organizers adopted as an emblem a red cross on a white background.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/redcross (609 words)

	International Red Cross Founder \| Southeastern Michigan American Red Cross (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dunant was a Swiss businessman who ‘happened’ to be on hand to see the carnage and horror of the battle of Solferino, Italy, in 1858.
		Dunant returned to Geneva but was so preoccupied with what he has seen at Solferino that he wrote a book at his own expense in 1862 entitled ‘ A Memory of Solferino’.
		Dunant gave all of the Nobel Peace Prize money away to charity, and died peacefully in his sleep on October 30th 1910.
	www.semredcross.org /news/news_2001/history_101201.htm (572 words)

	Who financed the Red Cross
		Aged 31, Henri Dunant had come to seek business concessions from Napoleon III but instead was witness to the slaughter, an event which changed his life.
		Unable to stand idly by, Dunant organised volunteers to care for nine thousand wounded from both sides who were brought afterwards, parched by dehydration, to the town of Castiglione.
		Henri Dunant died in 1910, before the great conflict of World War I, whose luckless participants were to benefit so much from his vision half a century earlier.
	www.booneshares.com /WhofinancedtheRedCross.htm (1008 words)

	Crimes Of War Project > The Book
		The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was founded in 1863, the brainchild of Jean-Henri Dunant, a Swiss businessman who had witnessed the Battle of Solferino between France and Austria in 1859 and was shocked by the carnage that resulted from the neglect of the wounded.
		Dunant campaigned throughout Europe for a new principle, that wounded enemy soldiers deserved the same medical treatment as troops of one’s own nation.
		Five Geneva notables set up a committee in 1863 with Dunant as its secretary, the nucleus of what was to become the International Committee of the Red Cross, and in 1864, the Swiss government hosted a sixteen-nation international conference to recommend improvements in medical services on the battlefield.
	www.crimesofwar.org /thebook/icrc.html (983 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jean Henri Dunant was born in Geneva on 8 May 1828.On 24 June 1859, Dunant arrived at Solferino
		Dunant left Paris and went to London to pursue his ideas to convince people of the need for an international
		Dunant left England in 1874 and wandered from place to place for the next twelve years, living in poverty
	www.geocities.com /rcy_yckss/history.html (422 words)

	Thank God for the Red Cross!
		Dunant commented: "I succeeded in getting together a certain number of women who helped me as best as they could to aid the woundedFood, and above all drink, had to be taken around to these men.
		All this took place in a scorching, filthy atmosphere, in the midst of vile, nauseating odors, with lamentations and cries of anguish all around!" From this courageous action by Dunant at Solferino, the International Red Cross was born.
		Dunant started very humbly by inviting a few friends to meet regularly at his house to study the Bible, to encourage each other in good works, and to bring about a spiritual awakening among young people.
	www3.telus.net /st_simons/cr0110.htm (736 words)

	Henri Dunant -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Swiss humanitarian and author Henri Dunant founded the Red Cross (now the Red Cross and Red Crescent), an international agency that aids in the prevention and relief of human suffering.
		He was cowinner, with Red Cross founder Henri Dunant, of the first Nobel prize for peace in 1901.
		Biographical sketches of Jean Henri Dunant of Switzerland and Frédéric Passy of France.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9031447?tocId=9031447 (643 words)

	What the Red Cross did for Australian Prisoners of War in WWII (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Red Cross was created as a result of the publication of Un Souvenir de Solférino (1862), an account by Jean Henri Dunant of the suffering endured by the wounded at the battle of Solférino in 1859.
		Dunant, a Swiss citizen, urged the formation of voluntary societies for relief for such war victims.
		In honour of Dunant's nationality, a red cross on a white background - the Swiss flag with the colours reversed - was chosen as this symbol.
	www.htav.asn.au /webquests/redcross (406 words)

	Achieving Vision, By Ray Wyman, Jr.
		For a visiting Swiss businessman, Jean-Henri Dunant, the carnage of war was a shocking new experience.
		Soon after, the guilt and revulsion at the great cost and inhumanity of war finally reached the capitols of the reigning kingdoms and republics.
		Barely seven years after Solferino, Dunant's vision to "press forward in a human and truly civilized spirit...
	www.heavypen.com /vision/page25.html (216 words)

	The FCAT Connection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Formed in Switzerland in 1863 by Swiss banker Jean Henri Dunant, under the auspices of the Geneva Convention, the Red Cross was formalized when eleven nations ratified the Geneva Treaty in 1864.
		A few years earlier, Dunant had toured a battlefield during a war between Italy and Austria, where thousands of wounded men lay dying without hope of medical attention.
		The delegates at the meeting endorsed Dunant’s suggestion, chose the red cross as a symbol, and agreed to meet again in Geneva the following year.
	www.santarosa.k12.fl.us /opd/Big6/LA.A.2.4.8.htm (1291 words)

	Merriam-Webster Online
		Today we mark the 1828 birth of Jean-Henri Dunant, the Swiss humanitarian who was a co-winner of the very first Nobel Peace Prize.
		At the age of 31, Dunant witnessed the bloody battle of Solferino.
		Four years later, Dunant established an international volunteer relief society dedicated to the prevention and alleviation of suffering during both war and peace.
	www.m-w.com /cgi-bin/wftwarch.pl?050803 (275 words)

	Reader's Companion to Military History - - Dunant, Jean Henri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Scion of a bourgeois Geneva family, Jean Henri Dunant was horrified by the carnage of nearly forty thousand casualties he witnessed on the battlefield at Solferino, Italy, in 1859.
		Neglecting his affairs, this tireless pacifist went bankrupt in 1867 campaigning against slavery, against "new and frightful weapons of destruction," and in favor of disarmament, international arbitration, humane treatment for prisoners of war, and the purchase of land in Palestine for the resettlement of Jews—well before the rise of the Zionist movement.
		Dunant shared the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901 with Frédéric Passy, another Swiss.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/mil/html/mh_016000_dunantjeanhe.htm (246 words)

	History of the Red Cross (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1859, Swiss businessman Henri Dunant (1828-1910) visited the northern Italian battlefield of Solferino and was deeply affected by the impact of war on the lives and dignity of both combatant and civilian.
		In 1863, four years after the battle of Solferino and a year after Dunant's book was published, a private Committee consisting of General Dufour, Gustave Moynier, physiciens Théodore Maunoir and Louis Appia, and Henry Dunant himself, organized a conference in Geneva, to which 16 countries sent their representatives.
		In 1901, the first Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Jean-Henry Dunant, founder of the Red Cross, whose whole life was guided by a passionate devotion to the humanitarian cause; he took initiatives and carried out activities of the utmost generosity.
	www.informatics.org /redcross/history.html (833 words)

	Search:Dunant - OXiDE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dunant was born in Geneva, Switzerland, on 8th May, 1828.
		Dunant - Biography Jean Henri Dunant's life (May 8, 1828-October 30, 1910) is a study in contrasts.
		Dunant founded the Red Cross (now the Red Cross and Red Crescent), an international agency that aids in the prevention a...
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	Florence Nightingale, The Red Cross and Christianity
		Jean-Henri Dunant Swiss humanitarian, was the founder of the Red Cross (now Red Cross and Red Crescent) and the World's Young Men's Christian Association.
		In Un Souvenir de Solférino (1862; A Memory of Solferino), he proposed the formation in all countries of voluntary relief societies for the prevention and alleviation of suffering in war and peacetime, without distinction of race or creed; he also proposed an international agreement covering the war wounded.
		September 25, 1828 - Jean-Henri Dunant the founder of the Red Cross movement is born in Geneva.
	www.edwardtbabinski.us /history/nightengale.html (2836 words)

	Dunant, Henri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In Un Souvenir de Solférino (1862), he proposed the formation in all countries of voluntary relief societies for the prevention and alleviation of suffering in war and peacetime, without distinction of race or creed; he also proposed an international agreement covering the war wounded.
		Having gone bankrupt because he neglected his business affairs, Dunant left Geneva in 1867 and spent most of the rest of his life in poverty and obscurity.
		He continued to promote interest in the treatment of prisoners of war, the abolition of slavery, international arbitration, disarmament, and the establishment of a Jewish homeland.
	www.britannica.com /nobel/micro/180_58.html (208 words)

	City of Peace marks centenary of first Nobel Peace Prize to Henri Dunant
		Geneva — inseparably associated with international peace — is marking the 100 years since the first Nobel Prize for Peace was awarded to Henri Dunant in 1901 for his efforts that led to the founding of the Red Cross.
		Geneva, the city of 44 Nobel Prizes, is a center of excellence and decision-making in multiple domains: The undertakings of these international organisations regularly place Geneva and its vicinity at the heart of world affairs.
		Jean Henri Dunant biography and English translation: ‘A Memory of Solferino’
	www.geneva.ch /Peace.htm (188 words)

	Jean Henri Dunant Biography / Biography of Jean Henri Dunant Main Biography
		Jean Henri Dunant (1828-1910) was a Swiss merchant who, as a witness to the cruelties of the battle of Solferino, made public the inefficiency of the sanitary organizations in wartime and developed a vision for a relief society of trained volunteers that resulted in the founding of the Red Cross.
		Jean Henri Dunant was born on May 8, 1828, in Geneva, Switzerland, to parents who belonged to the nobility.
		During his first years of adulthood, Dunant focused his efforts on the promotion of the Young Men's Chri.....
	www.bookrags.com /biography-jean-henri-dunant (258 words)

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		Two men played an essential role in creating contemporary humanitarian law, Swiss philanthropist Jean Henri Dunant and Guillaume-Henri Dufour.
		The campaign for such laws began with the publication Un Souvenir de Solferino (A Memory of Solferino, 1862; translated 1911) by Dunant, describing the suffering of wounded soldiers at the northern Italian battlefield of Solferino in June 1859.
		Dunant and Dufor helped to found the ICRC and convened the 1864 Diplomatic Conference, which led to the Geneva Conventions.
	www.msnbc.com /modules/geneva_convention/humanitarian.htm (162 words)

	The Biography of Clara Barton, Page 2
		While in Switzerland, Clara was visited by Dr. Louis Appia of the International Convention of Geneva (otherwise known as the Red Cross) who had heard of her work during the Civil War and hoped that she could persuade the U.S. government to acknowledge the articles of the Geneva Convention.
		These articles—which legally bound the signatory nations to an agreement that impartial relief would be provided to the wounded, sick, and homeless during wartime—formed the basis of the Red Cross, founded in 1864 by Swiss businessman (Jean) Henri Dunant.
		In 1859, Dunant had witnessed the horrors of the bloody aftermath at the Battle of Solferino, Italy, and was inspired by the compassionate acts of the peasant women who bound the wounds of their soldiers as well as the enemy's while murmuring that "all are brothers." (See the article about the Battle of Solferino.)
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Aegean/6732/files/cb2.html (1955 words)

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