Henry Dunant, Founder of the Red Cross

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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After witnessing the brutality of a battle first-hand, Swiss-born Dunant dedicated his life to easing the suffering brought by war. But he did so at great cost to his personal life.

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1:27.7	EAKER.
1:28.7	I'm Salon over today.
1:31.7	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from HouseofWorks.com.
1:38.7	Hello and welcome to the podcast.
1:46.5	I'm Holly Fry and I'm Tracy V. Wilson.
1:49.6	Today we're going to talk about a man who had some serious ups and downs in his life,
1:54.0	but his legacy is really quite immense.
1:56.5	He was a humanitarian almost from birth and his life's biggest accomplishment was founding
2:01.1	the international Red Cross.
2:03.9	And his name was Henri Dunel and a quick note on Henri spelled H-E-N-R-I in the classic
2:11.7	French way versus spelled more of the Americanized way, like Henry with the Y at the end.
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