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THE BATTLE OF SOLFERINO
(24 JUNE 1859)
Using documents of that era, this panoramic slide display reconstructs the battle in which 40,000 men were killed or wounded in a single day as the French and Piedmontese drove the Austrians out of the north of Italy. Arriving on this scene, Henry Dunant, a businessman from Geneva, was horrified to find the wounded soldiers lying abandoned on the field and he mobilised the local population and provided relief from the resources available.
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