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Old April 7, 2011, 11:59 AM   #7
Buzzcook
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Sorry, beyond finding the text I didn't do any research. After a quick look at Google all I found were pretty general articles like Wikipedia.
It was easier to find scholarly articles back in the day when a 486 processor was hot stuff. Now there is much more chaff than wheat.

Harvard Law School library has several articles that reference the Hague Convention, some are interesting, none dealt specifically with expanding bullets.

http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/...0/docherty.pdf
This article comes closest.
Quote:
While traveling through Italy in June 1859, Swiss businessman Henri
Dunant happened upon the aftermath of the Battle of Solferino. He found
“despair unspeakable and misery of every kind.”1 Mangled bodies, dead and
alive, littered the field, and the cries of the wounded filled the air. “The
poor wounded men . . . were ghastly pale and exhausted,” he wrote,
describing the scene:
Some, who had been the most badly hurt, had a stupefied look as
though they could not grasp what was said to them . . . . Others
were anxious and excited by nervous strain and shaken by spasmodic
trembling. Some, who had gaping wounds already beginning
to show infection, were almost crazed with suffering.2
Dunant’s recollections, A Memory of Solferino (1862), became a catalyst for
the first modern instrument of international humanitarian law (“IHL”), the
1864 Geneva Convention.3
I'll look around some more, but I'm not hopeful.
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