Mary Seacole was from Jamaica and had to travel on her own a great distance to the site of the Crimean War. When she first volunteered to go to the war she was denied by the British War Office. However, the undeterred Mary Seacole still traveled independently to cold, snowy Russia, wher...
The Crimean War (1853–56) was fought mainly on the Crimean Peninsula between Russia and Britain, France, and the Ottoman Empire. It arose from the conflict of great powers in the Middle East and was more directly caused by Russian demands to exercise pr
Mary SeacoleMary Seacole, cartoon in Punch magazine, May 30, 1857.(more) The Crimean War was managed and commanded very poorly on both sides. Disease accounted for a disproportionate number of the approximately 250,000 casualties lost by each side, and, when news of the deplorable conditions ...