Florence Nightingale
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Florence Nightingale was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean
Nightingale, c. 1860
Embley Park in Hampshire, now a school, one of the family homes of William Nightingale, seen in 2007
Young Florence Nightingale
Painting of Nightingale by Augustus Egg, c. 1840s
Crimean War
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The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom, and Sardinia from October 1853 to February 1856. Geopolitical causes of the war included th
Florence Nightingale
…reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. She significantly reduced death rates by improving hygiene and living standards…
Attack on the Malakoff, by William Simpson
The naval Battle of Navarino (1827), as depicted by Ambroise Louis Garneray.
Muhammad Ali of Egypt deposed the Ottoman governor and seized control of Egypt for himself
Russian siege of Varna in Ottoman-ruled Bulgaria, July–September 1828