Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Origin of the Red Cross: "Un Souvenir De Solferino"
At last, in 1897, he was discovered in the Swiss village of H eiden, where he was living in misery, in a Home for old men, with almost no means other than a small pension received from the Empress of Russia.
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