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Guillaume-Henri Dufour
Guillaume-Henri Dufour was a Swiss general and engineer from Geneva. He commanded the federal army that defeated the Sonderbund in November 1847 with few casualties, paving the way for the federal state of 1848. He directed the first official topographic map of Switzerland, the Dufour map, and was a co-founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross. The highest Swiss peak, the Dufourspitze, is named after him.
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