Smart Mémorial Pour Les Travaux De Guerre. Bundle [VuBvEPS1]

Dufour was born in Konstanz in 1787 and studied in Geneva, at the École Polytechnique in Paris, and at the École du Génie in Metz. He served with the Grande Armée, defending Corfu in 1813 and taking part in the campaigns in France in 1814. He returned to Switzerland in 1817 where he was appointed ingénieur cantonal, supervising a programme of public works that greatly improved Geneva. He helped to found the Military Academy at Thun in 1819, becoming its Chief Instructor, the present work being the published version of the course on fortification that he taught there. He was elected General of the Federal Army on four occasions and was responsible for the first topographical survey of Switzerland which was published between 1842 and 1864. In the latter year he presided at the international congress which resulted in the first Geneva Convention.