The Red Cross, an international society for relief of suffering in time of war or disaster with…
The correct choice is: “J.H. Dunant” Jean Henri Dunant, a Swiss businessman, saw the suffering of wounded soldiers after the Battle of Solferino (1859) and described it in…
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The Red Cross, an international society for relief of suffering in time of war or disaster with headquarters at Geneva, was founded in 1863 on the advocacy of
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The correct choice is: “J.H. Dunant”
Jean Henri Dunant, a Swiss businessman, saw the suffering of wounded soldiers after the Battle of Solferino (1859) and described it in his book A Memory of Solferino (1862). His advocacy led to the founding of the International Committee for Relief to the Wounded, later the International Committee of the Red Cross, in Geneva in 1863, and to the first Geneva Convention in 1864. Dunant shared the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901. Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher who had no role in founding the Red Cross.
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