The proposals made by Henry Dunant in A Memory of Solferino, which is to say the creation of a national relief societies to attend to wounded soldiers and the adoption of a document protecting the war wounded and those who care for them, were studied by a group of citizens of Geneva who, on 17 February 1863, founded an International Committee for Relief to the Wounded, which later became known as the International Committee of the Red Cross. In October the Committee submitted Dunant’s proposals to a group of experts gathered at an international conference. The proposals were adopted by the conference and subsequently submitted to States for approval in 1864.
