Mary Seacole financed her own trip to this war, setting up her British Hotel and providing food, shelter, and medical care to soldiers right at the front.
Mary Seacole financed her own trip to this war, setting up her British Hotel and providing food, shelter, and medical care to soldiers right at the front. She did this after she was rejected from a nursing program led by Florence Nightingale. Despite these women's best efforts, tens of thousands of French, British, Turkish, and Russian soldiers died in the war that saw Sevastopol besieged. For ten points, identify this mid-nineteenth-century European war, which featured the Charge of the Light Brigade.
Mary Seacole financed her own trip to this war, setting up her British Hotel and providing food, shelter, and medical care to soldiers right at the front.
{Crimean} War