During the bloody battles of the nineteenth century, more people lent aid to the injured and did their best to alleviate their suffering. In particular, a pioneer Florence Nightingale was the English who are working in the Crimean War of 1853-56, placing nurses in hospitals that she herself had built. The founder of the Red Cross will, however, Henry Dunant, a businessman from Geneva in June 1859 was in Lombardy for business. It so happened that he was a spectator of one of the most tragic episodes in Italian history: the battle of Solferino, near Lake Garda, where the armies faced off against French-Piedmontese and Austrian. This battle was a real massacre. Impressed by the large number of deaths and injuries and the disruption of health armies, chose to participate personally in the relief efforts. Organized improvised places for the wounded, like churches and schools and urged civilians to help. Then he wrote his tragic impressions of a book: "A Memory of Solferino" published in 1862. He continued to fight because it was established an international association that was taken care of the wounded and prisoners of war. His initiatives, along with four other Swiss citizens born in 1863, the International Committee for Relief to the Wounded War ", which will turn the following year in" Red Cross ". This humanitarian institutions will be officially proclaimed August 12, 1864 in Geneva, a diplomatic conference, which involved 12 countries to approve it.
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