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Guillaume Henri Dufour

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Guillaume Henri Dufour , 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 . A noted cartographer, he was also the author of several military treatises and histories. Dufour presided over the first Geneva Convention, which established (1864) the International Red Cross. Author not available, DUFOUR, GUILLAUME HENRI. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more

Dufourspitze
Dufourspitze, Switzerland The highest mountain peak in Switzerland, it is named after General Guillaume‐Henri Dufour (1787–1875), a military officer who surveyed several peaks in the region. The German Spitze means ‘peak’ or ‘summit’. Read more

Sonderbund
...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. Lord Palmerston, the British foreign minister, helped prevent foreign intervention... Read more

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	LETTERS TO THE EDITORThe Red Cross Emblem ; ...writer states that it was Henri Dunant, the creator...not Mr. Dunant, but Guillaume Henri Dufour, one of the five Genevese...white background. Mr. Dufour, the first general of...Prize in 1901, and Mr. Dufour, whose name was given... Read more
	Recueil des actes de Louis VI, roi de France (1108-1137) ; ...Publie sous la direction de Robert-Henri Bautier par Jean Dufour. 4 vols. [Chartes et diplomes relatifs...Philip Augustus (1180-1223).Jean Dufour, who has already contributed the...computerized textual processing, Dufour provides analysis, stemma, text or...an erudite introduction in which ... Read more
	Secession and American federalism.(Essay) ; ...Swiss federal troops, under the command of General Guillaume Henri Dufour (1787-1875) of Geneva, occupied primarily Catholic...and a bloody civil war was certainly possible. But Dufour explicitly forbade his troops from unnecessary bloodshed... Read more
	The International Committee of the Red Cross and the Development of International Humanitarian Law ; ...Following publication, a five-man committee was formed in Geneva consisting of Henry Dunant, Gustave Moynier, General Guillaume-Henri Dufour, and Doctors Appia and Maunoir, the aim of which was to give shape to Dunant's ideas. After some hesitation, the... Read more

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