The work would be later romanticized in The Mission of Mercy: Florence Nightingale receiving the wounded at Scutari, a large canvas painted by Jerry Barrett in 1857 that today hangs in the ...

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.