A little over a year later, she was on her way to the Crimean War. In October 1854, Nightingale brought 38 female nurses ... 20 to 30 at a time – lived at school and wore nurses’ uniforms to rigorous ...

Following Russian invasions in Romania and Turkey in 1853, Great Britain and France entered the war in 1854 primarily out of strategic interest in defending the Bosporus and Dardanelles Straits ...

Word of the Week: Crimea's tumultuous history shrouds the origin of its very name Crimea has emerged as the central obstacle to ending the war in Ukraine ... during the Crimean War (1853-1856).

because he had fought in the Crimean War.” On his father’s side, “in that tight space of a family” he had uncles in the IRA in the 1920s, another in the British army, and yet another who ...

American military doctors started using ether during the Mexican-American War, and chloroform was employed during the Crimean War of the mid-1850s. That being said, this new-fangled way of putting ...

Reader discretion is advised. Tony Richardson’s The Charge of the Light Brigade is an anti-war movie that depicts the terrible condition of the British Army during the Crimean War. After the Battle of ...

The Falklands War, in 1982, was a conflict in which both sides used Western equipment and weapons. Argentine FN FAL rifles stacked after the war. One of them bears a picture of the Virgin Mary on the ...

The Thirty Years War was not one single conflict but a complex collection of over twelve varying, separate and contradictory conflicts between the major European powers in the period 1618-48. W P ...