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    Guillaume Henri Dufour (French pronunciation: [ɡijom ɑ̃ʁi dyfuʁ]; 15 September 1787 – 14 July 1875) was a Swiss military officer, structural engineer and...
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    unconstitutional (October 1847) and ordered it dissolved by force, General Guillaume Henri Dufour led the federal army of 100,000 and defeated the Sonderbund forces...
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    Théodore Maunoir, from the Geneva Hygiene and Health Commission; and Guillaume-Henri Dufour, a Swiss army general of great renown. Eight days later, the five...
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    only 18 m. The first permanent wire cable suspension bridge was Guillaume Henri Dufour's Saint Antoine Bridge in Geneva of 1823, with two 40 m spans. The...
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    Monte Rosa (redirect from Pointe Dufour)
    Zermatt. Its main summit, named Dufourspitze in honor of the surveyor Guillaume-Henri Dufour and wholly located in Switzerland, culminates at 4,634 m (15,203 ft)...
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    After the joining of canton of Geneva to Switzerland in 1815, Guillaume Henri Dufour published the first Swiss official map for which the metre was adopted...
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    Dufourspitze (redirect from Dufour Peak)
    January 28, 1863, decided to rename the mountain in honor of Guillaume-Henri Dufour. Dufour was a Swiss engineer, topographer, co-founder of the Red Cross...
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    1864, he took over the position of president of the committee from Guillaume-Henri Dufour, and he was also a major rival of the founder Henry Dunant. During...
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    of the Dufour Map was begun in 1845 by the Federal Topographic Bureau under Guillaume-Henri Dufour, and continued to December 1864. The Dufour Map was...
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    Swiss Federal Council (1861–1872). Along with Gustave Moynier and Guillaume-Henri Dufour, he founded the Swiss Red Cross in July 1866, and served as its...
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    France Guillaume Duchenne (1806–1875), French neurologist Guillaume Dufay (1397–1474), Franco–Flemish composer and music theorist Guillaume Henri Dufour (1787–1875)...
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    (1765–1846) a Catholic theologian, orientalist and biblical scholar. Guillaume Henri Dufour (1787–1875) a Swiss military officer, structural engineer and topographer...
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  • to the establishment of Switzerland as a federal state in 1848, Guillaume Henri Dufour was nominated by the Swiss Diet to serve as general in response...
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    de Folard and Robert Melvill in the 18th century. Swiss general Guillaume Henri Dufour made another attempt to reconstruct the onager based on the work...
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    canton of Aargau introduced the flag for its troops in 1833. General Guillaume-Henri Dufour proposed use of the flag for all federal forces in 1839. The Tagsatzung...
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    After the joining of the canton of Geneva to Switzerland in 1815, Guillaume Henri Dufour published the first official Swiss map, for which the metre was...
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    which date from the last ice age. This rock was chosen by General Guillaume Henri Dufour as the reference point for surveying in Switzerland. The second...
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    Appia Guillaume-Henri Dufour Théodore Maunoir Gustave Moynier Dunant, Henry (1862). Un souvenir de Solférino. Genève: Impremerie Jules-Guillaume Fick....
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    Memory of Solferino in 1862, Maunoir, together with Gustave Moynier, Guillaume-Henri Dufour and Louis Appia, joined the "Committee of Five" which was founded...
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  • wire cable suspension bridge, Pont Saint Antoine in Geneva, by Guillaume Henri Dufour, of two 40 m spans. First cast iron framed greenhouse erected at...
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    PMID 25750153 Peters, Tom F. (1987). Transitions in Engineering: Guillaume Henri Dufour and the Early 19th Century Cable Suspension Bridges. Birkhauser...
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    1 October 1956 1 May 1980 1 May 2000 20 francs 155 × 85 mm Blue Guillaume-Henri Dufour Thistle 29 March 1956 50 francs 173 × 95 mm Green Head of a girl...
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  • underspanned suspension bridges have been built. Examples include Guillaume Henri Dufour's Pont des Bergues (1834); and James Smith’s Micklewood Bridge. Similar...
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  • eventually settling in Bern. He created many busts, including one of Guillaume-Henri Dufour (1847) and one of Friedrich Frey-Herosé (about 1848). Among his...
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  • bridge Tom F. Peters (1987-01-01). Transitions in Engineering: Guillaume Henri Dufour and the Early 19th Century Cable Suspension Bridges. Birkhauser...
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    Sonderbund War, which thanks to the thoughtful campaign by General Guillaume-Henri Dufour resulted in fewer than a hundred casualties on both sides. After...
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    the next two years. Peters, Tom F., "Transitions in Engineering: Guillaume Henri Dufour and the Early 19th Century Cable Suspension Bridges", Birkhauser...
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  • Guillaume-Henri Dufour...
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  • General of the Revolutionary Army Guillaume Henri Dufour (1787–1875), Swiss general, bridge engineer and topographer Guy Dufour (born 1987), Belgian football...
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    Nationalhymne) in 1857, in the contest of a "serenade" performed for general Guillaume Henri Dufour. The Scottish physician John Forbes, who visited Switzerland in...
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