LONDON -- Google today honoured Mary Seacole, a Jamaican/Scottish nurse who nursed wounded soldiers on the battlefield during the Crimean War in the 1850s. SEE ALSO: 5 black artists using their work ...

The nurse was hailed as the greatest black Briton, yet plans for a statue have met with opposition. This conflict is part of a wider tradition by an elite In February 2004 Mary Seacole was voted by ...

MARY Seacole appears in the 13th series of Doctor Who as it features the Crimean War. The Jamaican-born nurse was renowned for treating the sick and wounded on the battlefield at her own expense after ...

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Mary Seacole was an Afro-Caribbean nurse who served in the Crimean War (1853 to 1856) as what the Appeal has come to describe as Britain’s first battlefield nurse. She was one of the first black women ...

Mary Seacole (1805-1881) had more skills than José Andres; in addition to establishing catering in war zones (Seacole set up a rest stop for British soldiers near the front lines during the Crimean ...

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