SOLFERINO

sōlfārēˈnō, village, Lombardy, N Italy, near Mantua. There, on June 24, 1859, the French and Sardinians fought a bloody battle with the Austrians (see Risorgimento). Although the battle resulted in no clear decision, the Austrians withdrew to their strategic fortresses. Napoleon III, shocked by the huge losses and aware of the difficulties of continuing the war, soon afterward met Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria at Villafranca di Verona, where a preliminary peace was arranged. By a coincidence, J. Henry Dunant, the Swiss philanthropist, was present at the battle, which he described in Un Souvenir de Solférino. His experience in witnessing the battle later inspired him to promote the Red Cross (founded 1864).

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books on: Solferino  - 497 results

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The Life and Times of Cavour - Vol. 2
Book by William Roscoe Thayer; Houghton Mifflin, 1911
Subjects: Cavour, Camillo Benso--Conte Di--1810-1861
...XXIII. MAGENTA AND SOLFERINO 25...BATTLE OF SOLFERINO Map 46...123. CHAPTER XXIII MAGENTA AND SOLFERINO G YULAIS inexplicable indecision...
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The Second Empire
Book by Octave Aubry, Arthur Livingston; J. B. Lippincott, 1940
Subjects: France--History--Second Empire, 1852-1870
...XV MAGENTA 214 XVI SOLFERINO 220 XVII VILLAFRANCA...Victoria 200 Napoleon III at Solferino 222 The Reception of the...
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Champions of Charity: War and the Rise of the Red Cross
Book by John F. Hutchinson; Westview Press, 1996
Subjects: Red Cross--History, War--Relief Of Sick And Wounded--History
...Dunant and Solferino 12...1 Henry Dunant, author of A Memory of Solferino 13...publication of Dunant Un Souvenir de Solferino . Motivated by religious conviction...
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The Reconstruction of Europe: A Sketch of the Diplomatic and Military History of Continental Europe
Book by Harold Murdock; Houghton Mifflin, 1894
Subjects: Europe--History--1848-1871, Europe--Politics--1848-1871
...MAGENTA 130 THE CAMPAIGN IN ITALY, 1859; THE COUNTRY FROM MILAN TO VERONA 138 BATTLEFIELD OF SOLFERINO 144 EARLY OPERATIONS OF THE PRUSSIAN ARMIES IN BOHEMIA, 1866 226 BATTLEFIELD OF KONIGGRATZ...
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Historical Dictionary of the French Second Empire, 1852-1870
Book by William E. Echard; Greenwood Press, 1985
Subjects: France--History--Second Empire, 1852-1870--Dictionaries
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journal articles on: Solferino  - 24 results

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Horror, Abjection and Compassion: From Dunant to Compassion Fatigue
Journal article by Bertrand Taithe; New Formations, 2007
Subjects: Compassion--Analysis, Dunant, Jean Henri--Works, Humanitarian aid--Analysis, Philanthropists--Works, Un Souvenir de Solferino (Book)--Criticism and interpretation
...publication of Henry Dunants Un Souvenir de Solferino in 1864. It aims to uncover the development...Dunants inspirational text, Un Souvenir de Solferino, took the point of view of a tourist...narrative conventions of Un Souvenir de Solferino turned on their head the narratives of...
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Operationalizing the Responsibility to Protect-The Policekeeping Approach
Journal article by Graham Day, Christopher Freeman; Global Governance, Vol. 11, 2005
...Responsibility to Protect-The Policekeeping Approach. by Graham Day , Christopher Freeman At the battle of Solferino, Henri Dunant was so appalled by the loss of life that he founded what became the International Red Cross movement to mitigate...
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What Is the Future of Humanitarianism?
Journal article by Michael Barnett; Global Governance, Vol. 9, 2003
Subjects: A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis (Book)--Reviews, Condemned to Repeat? The Paradox of Humanitarian Action (Book)--Reviews, The Humanitarian Enterprise: Dilemmas and Discoveries (Book)--Reviews
...wrought by a fierce battle between French and Austrian forces in Solferino, Italy, in June 1859, Henry Dunant, a Swiss citizen, appealed...violence and to provide them with assistance." The Battle of Solferino proved to be modern humanitarianisms Thirty Years War, and...
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Early Tendencies of Peace Education in Sweden
Journal article by Bengt Thelin; PJE. Peabody Journal of Education, Vol. 71, 1996
Subjects: Education
...some years later and his book Un souvenir de Solferino ( 1862 ) strongly affected public opinion...Malmo. Dunant, H. ( 1862 ). Un souvenir de Solferino A memory of Solferino . Ekbom, I. ( 1991 ). Den kvinnliga fredstanken...
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Conjunctions: Life Narratives in the Field of Human Rights
Journal article by Kay Schaffer, Sidonie Smith; Biography, Vol. 27, 2004
Subjects: Autobiographies--Political aspects, Human rights activists--Personal narratives, Human rights workers--Personal narratives, Human rights--Crimes against
...adoption of the Geneva Convention of 1864. In A Memoir of Solferino (1859), Swiss humanitarian Henri Dunant witnessed the carnage...Century. Oxford: Hart, 2000. Dunant, Henry. A Memory of Solferino. Washington, D.C.: American National Red Cross, 1939. Farrell...
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The New-York Times Goes to War: Jonathan Marwil Describes the Eye-Opening Experience of Three Young Americans Who Went to Report from the Battlefields of the Italian War of Independence
Magazine article by Jonathan Marwil; History Today, Vol. 55, June 2005
Subjects: Battles--19th century AD, Battles--Description and travel, Battles--History, Battles--Media coverage, Battles--Military aspects, Piedmont, Italy--History, Piedmont, Italy--Military aspects, Raymond, Henry Jarvis--Appreciation, Raymond, Henry Jarvis--Personalities, War correspondents--19th century AD, War correspondents--Appreciation, War correspondents--Authorship, War correspondents--History
...Martino near Lake Garda down through Solferino and extending to Guidizzolo, was the...armies the size of those that met at Solferino, while few battles lasting a single day...Forsyth) A sketch of the battlefield of Solferino, published in America in 1859. saw more...
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French Connection
Magazine article by Penny Mcguire; The Architectural Review, Vol. 209, April 2001
Subjects: Bridges--Illustrations, photographs, etc., Footbridges--Design and construction, Paris, France--Buildings, facilities, etc.
...various quayside levels. In Paris, the new doubledecker Solferino footbridge, by Marc Mimram, spans the River Seine between...with the Gare dAusterlitz and seems to be popularly unloved. Solferinos spare geometrical forms, lightly slung across the water, has...
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Geneva Conventions: They Help Protect Civilians and Soldiers from the Atrocities of War. but These Hard-Won Rules of Battle Are Falling by the Wayside: Terrorists Ignore Them, and Governments Increasingly Find Them Quaint and Outdated. with Every Violation, War Only Gets Deadlier for Everyone
Magazine article by Steven R. Ratner; Foreign Policy, March 2008
Subjects: Al-Qaeda, Geneva conventions--Interpretation and construction, War (International law)
...trace their direct origin to 1859, when Swiss businessman Henri Dunant happened upon the bloody aftermath of the Battle of Solferino. His outrage at the suffering of the wounded led him to establish what would become the International Committee of the Red...
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Trojan Horse
Magazine article by Penny Mcguire; The Architectural Review, Vol. 196, August 1994
Subjects: Architects--Works, Interior design--Technique, Musee du Louvre--Decoration, painting, etc., Wilmotte, Jean-Michel--Works
...create a vast cultural anchor in the centre of Paris. Parts of the palace and the gardens have not yet been restored and the Solferino bridge is still to be built over the Seine. But when work has finished, the Louvre, with its famous pyramid, will no doubt...
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Double-Red-Crossed
Magazine article by Lee A. Casey, David B. Rivkin Jr.; The National Interest, Spring 2005
Subjects: International Committee of the Red Cross
...who witnessed the terrible aftermath of the 1859 Battle of Solferino. Dunant was horrified by the primitive medical services for the wounded and published his thoughts in 1862 in A Memory of Solferino. A year later, the book prompted a five-man committee in Geneva...
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newspaper articles on: Solferino  - 17 results

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Story of Red Cross Inspiration; HOT TOPIC
Newspaper article; The NewsMail (Bundaberg, Australia), July 2, 2009
Subjects: International Committee of the Red Cross
...TOPIC. TO mark the 150th anniversary of the battle of Solferino, the Red Cross surveyed the experiences of 4000 civilians...for succour. The dead and dying soldiers at the battle of Solferino in the Italian war of independence inspired Henri Dunant to...
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Act Two of Our Lives
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, January 2, 2005
...a neutral spectator at the Battle of Solferino in Italy on June 24, 1859. A banker by...non-controversial. What he saw in the Battle of Solferino shocked him. He saw the battleground...more detailed account of the Battle of Solferino the event that changed the life of Henry...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), June 24, 2004
...divorce, he married her maid-of-honour, Catherine Howard. 1859: Jean Henri Dunant witnessed suffering on the battlefield at Solferino. His horror led him to set up the International Red Cross. 1902: Edward VII had an emergency appendectomy in Buckingham Palace...
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Segolene Faces Uphill Struggle for Hearts and Minds of France
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 23, 2007
...to carry on a fight for change so France can raise itself up once more. At her Socialist Party headquarters in the Rue de Solferino in Paris more than 2,000 supporters watched the speech on a huge screen. When she said together, we can bring back the smile...
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Segolene Faces Uphill Struggle for Hearts and Minds of France
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 23, 2007
Subjects: Sarkozy, Nicolas
...to carry on a fight for change "so France can raise itself up once more". At her Socialist Party headquarters in the Rue de Solferino in Paris more than 2,000 supporters watched the speech on a huge screen. When she said "together, we can bring back the smile...
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encyclopedia articles on: Solferino  - 8 results

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Solferino
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SOLFERINO solfare no, village, Lombardy, N Italy, near Mantua. There, on June 24, 1859, the French and Sardinians fought a bloody...coincidence, J. Henry Dunant , the Swiss philanthropist, was present at the battle, which he described in Un Souvenir de Solferino. His experience in witnessing the battle later inspired him to promote the Red Cross (founded 1864...
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Dunant, Jean Henri
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Red Cross, b. Geneva. In 1862 appeared his Un souvenir de Solferino (tr. The Origins of the Red Cross, 1911), a description of the sufferings of the wounded at the battle of Solferino and a plea for organizations to care for the war wounded...
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Failly, Pierre Louis Charles De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...CHARLES DE pyer lwe sharl d faye , 1810 92, French general. He fought in Algeria, in the Crimean War, and at Magenta and Solferino (1859) in the Italian War. Heading the French expeditionary forces to protect the Papal States, he defeated Giuseppe Garibaldi...
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Villafranca Di Verona
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...NE Italy. In 1859, Napoleon III and Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria met there after the Austrian defeats at Magenta and Solferino and signed a preliminary peace treaty, which was formalized the same year by the Treaty of Zurich. Sardinia, Napoleons ally...
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Victor Emmanuel II
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...France, with whom Cavour had formed an alliance, he fought against Austria in the Italian War of 1859. After the battle of Solferino, France signed a separate armistice with Austria at Villafranca di Verona ; Victor Emmanuel was not consulted, but the terms...
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