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Along with Florence Nightingale, Mary Seacole (born Jamaica, 1805) was a pioneering nurse & a heroine of the Crimean War. Her great work went unrecognised for almost a century after her death. The War Office declined her request to be sent to the Crimea as a war nurse, so she funded the trip herself & founded the ‘British Hotel’ to help look after sick & wounded soldiers. Her autobiog. (1857) was the 1st written by a black woman in Britain