on 12 august 1949, further revisions to the existing two geneva conventions were adopted. an additional convention "for the amelioration of the condition of wounded, sick and shipwrecked members of armed forces at sea", now called the second geneva convention, was brought under the geneva convention umbrella as a successor to the 1907 hague convention x. the 1929 geneva convention "relative to the treatment of prisoners of war" may have been the second geneva convention from a historical point of view (because it was actually formulated in geneva), but after 1949 it came to be called the third convention because it came later chronologically than the hague convention. reacting to the experience of world war ii, the fourth geneva convention, a new convention "relative to the protection of civilian persons in time of war," was established. also, the additional protocols of 8 june 1977 were intended to make the conventions apply to internal conflicts such as civil wars. today, the four conventions and their added protocols contain more than 600 articles, a remarkable expansion when compared to the mere 10 articles in the first 1864 convention.