In which European city was Crimean War nurse Florence Nightingale born?
Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale, (; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer and 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. She gave nursing a favourable reputation and became an icon of Victorian culture, especially in the persona of "The Lady with the Lamp" making rounds of wounded soldiers at night. Recent commentators have asserted Nightingale's Crimean War achievements were exaggerated by media at the time, but critics agree on the
Florence Nightingale Crimean War. Seacole claimed that associates of Nightingale rebuffed her attempts to work with the English nurse and her contingent, an allegation Nightingale later admitted to. Nightingale also questioned Seacole's morals, and the parentage of her daughter. During the Crimean war, Nightingale gained the nickname "The Lady with the Lamp" from a phrase in a report in "The Times": She is a "ministering angel" without any exaggeration in these hospitals, and as her slender form glides quietly along each corridor, every poor fellow's face softens with gratitude at the sight of her. When all the medical officers have retired for