Florence Nightingale was born into a wealthy London ... of three dozen volunteer nurses deployed to the Turkish base in Scutari where the British army was sending wounded soldiers.

Florence Nightingale was so much more than a lady ... He appointed her to take 38 nurses to the military hospital in Scutari, Turkey. It was the first time women had been allowed to officially ...

Florence Nightingale was named after the city of her birth - Florence in Italy. During the Crimean War (1853 - 1856) her hospital was across the Black Sea in Scutari - part of modern-day Istanbul.

Based on her clinical observations of the sick and dying soldiers in the Scutari hospitals, Nightingale applied her education and knowledge of critical observation and statistical measures to not ...