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Henri Dunant
Resistance & Human Rights
13
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Henri Dunant

Jean-Henri Dunant
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Switzerland
8 May 1828 โ€“ 30 October 1910 (82 years old)

Henri Dunant was a Swiss humanitarian, social reformer, and author whose harrowing eyewitness experience at the Battle of Solferino in 1859 inspired him to create the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and initiate the 1864 Geneva Convention. For revolutionizing humanitarian international law and wartime civilian protections, Dunant was awarded the inaugural Nobel Peace Prize in 1901.

Heiden, Switzerland
Sheikh Ma al-'Aynayn
Resistance & Human Rights
3
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Sheikh Ma al-'Aynayn

ุงู„ุดูŠุฎ ู…ุงุก ุงู„ุนูŠู†ูŠู† ุงู„ู‚ู„ู‚ู…ูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ท Mauritania
1830 โ€“ 1910 (80 years old)

Saharan spiritual titan, scholar, and anti-colonial commander who founded the holy city of Smara, authored over 300 manuscripts, and united Saharan and Mauritanian tribes against French expansion.

Tiznit, Morocco
Geronimo
Resistance & Human Rights
8
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 940

Geronimo

Goyaaล‚รฉ
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ Mexico
16 June 1829 โ€“ 17 February 1909 (79 years old)

Fierce Bedonkohe Apache medicine man and military leader who led decades of guerrilla resistance against Mexican and United States armies across the desert southwest to defend traditional Apache homeland and freedom.

Fort Sill, Oklahoma, United States
Cheikh Bouamama
Resistance & Human Rights
3
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Cheikh Bouamama

ุงู„ุดูŠุฎ ุจูˆุนู…ุงู…ุฉ
๐ŸŒ Morocco / Algeria border
c. 1840 โ€“ 1908 (68 years old)

Algerian Sufi leader of the Ouled Sidi Cheikh who waged a formidable quarter-century guerrilla resistance (1881โ€“1908) across the High Plateaus and Saharan Atlas against French colonial armies.

El Aioun Sidi Mellouk, Morocco
Bai Bureh
Resistance & Human Rights
5
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Bai Bureh

Bai Bureh (Kebalai)
๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Sierra Leone
1840 โ€“ c. 1908 (67 years old)

Sierra Leonean ruler and military strategist who led the historic 1898 Hut Tax War against British imperial taxation, defeating British expeditionary forces for ten months through masterclass guerrilla ambushes and trench networks.

Rogbare (Port Loko), Sierra Leone
King Behanzin
Resistance & Human Rights
6
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

King Behanzin

Gbehanzin (Gbรชxan-zรฎn)
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฏ Kingdom of Dahomey
c. 1845 โ€“ 1906 (61 years old)

Eleventh King of the Kingdom of Dahomey, celebrated as the 'Shark King' (Kondo), who commanded his legendary 4,000-strong all-female warrior battalions (the Dahomey Amazons / Mino) in fierce defense against French colonial conquest.

Abomey, Benin
Hendrik Witbooi
Resistance & Human Rights
4
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Hendrik Witbooi

Hendrik Witbooi (!Nanseb /Gรขbemab)
๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ South Africa
c. 1830 โ€“ 1905 (75 years old)

Kaptein of the Nama people and supreme national hero of Namibia whose tactical guerrilla warfare, literate diplomatic journals, and 1904 uprising against Imperial German colonial genocide make him the foremost figure on Namibia's currency.

Gibeon (Hardap Region), Namibia
Chief Joseph
Resistance & Human Rights
9
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 930

Chief Joseph

Hinmatรณowyalahtqฬ“it (Thunder Rolling in the Mountains)
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
3 March 1840 โ€“ 21 September 1904 (64 years old)

Leader of the Wal-lam-wat-kain (Wallowa) band of Nez Perce who led his people on an epic 1,170-mile fighting retreat across the Rocky Mountains toward Canada in 1877 and became a celebrated orator for indigenous human dignity.

Colville Indian Reservation, Washington, United States
Samori Toure
Resistance & Human Rights
2
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Samori Toure

Samori Toure (Almamy)
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ณ Guinea
c. 1830 โ€“ 1900 (70 years old)

Founder and Emperor of the Wassoulou Empire, acclaimed as the 'Napoleon of the Sudan', who forged a professional modernized army with local firearms manufacturing and resisted French colonial conquest across West Africa for sixteen years.

Conakry, Guinea
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