https://www.ipernity.com/tag/323415/keyword/334176 https://cdn.ipernity.com/p/105/57/EF/323415.buddy.jpg https://www.ipernity.com/tag/323415/keyword/334176 Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:55:45 +0000 Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:55:45 +0000 https://www.ipernity.com https://www.ipernity.com/doc/323415/40070152 tag:ipernity.com,2015-10-20,doc-40070152 Tue, 20 Oct 2015 14:46:51 +0000 2015-06-01T00:00:00+02:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/323415">Martin M. Miles</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/323415/40070152"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/01/52/40070152.9068fced.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="178" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">The town "Riva del Garda", partly seen here, belonged to Austria up to WWI. Today the northern end of Lake Garda is part of "South Tyrol", while the southern end belongs to the Lombardy.<br /> <br /> In 1856 the "Battle of Solferino" was fought near the southern end. The allied French Army under Napoleon III and Sardinian Army under Victor Emmanuel II defeated the Austrian Army under Emperor Franz Joseph I.<br /> <br /> When Swiss businessman Henry Dunant arrived at the battlefield he was shocked to see thousands of wounded, dying and dead troops. He wrote down his memories in the book "A Memory of Solferino" which not only inspired the creation of the International Committee of the Red Cross in 1863, but as well the First Geneva Convention a year later.</div> Lake Garda <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/323415">Martin M. Miles</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/323415/40070152"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/01/52/40070152.9068fced.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="178" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">The town "Riva del Garda", partly seen here, belonged to Austria up to WWI. Today the northern end of Lake Garda is part of "South Tyrol", while the southern end belongs to the Lombardy.<br /> <br /> In 1856 the "Battle of Solferino" was fought near the southern end. The allied French Army under Napoleon III and Sardinian Army under Victor Emmanuel II defeated the Austrian Army under Emperor Franz Joseph I.<br /> <br /> When Swiss businessman Henry Dunant arrived at the battlefield he was shocked to see thousands of wounded, dying and dead troops. He wrote down his memories in the book "A Memory of Solferino" which not only inspired the creation of the International Committee of the Red Cross in 1863, but as well the First Geneva Convention a year later.</div> Martin M. Miles