St. Petersburg Declaration limits certain weapons
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- Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference pp. 357-359 · open book
Petersburg declaration of 1868 called on states to refrain from using weapons that caused horrendous wounds.The first Geneva Convention on the treatment of the wounded was signed in 1 8 64 after another bloody imperial encounter-the battle of Solferino between French and Habsburg armies in northern Italy.