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Cover of the original edition of A Memory of Solferino (1862).
First page of the manuscript.

A Memory of Solferino (French: Un souvenir de Solférino) is a book of the Swiss humanitarian Henry Dunant published in 1862.[1] It proved decisive in the founding of the International Committee of the Red Cross.[2][3]

  1. ^ Dunant, Henry (1862). Un souvenir de Solférino. Genève: Impremerie Jules-Guillaume Fick. Retrieved 8 May 2016 – via Gallica.
  2. ^ Henry Dunant, A Memory of Solferino, translated from French by the American Red Cross, edited by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ISBN 2-88145-006-7).
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Bugnion was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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