After numerous adventures, she tried to volunteer for nursing duty during the Crimean War. Rejected both by the Army and Nightingale's organisation, she went to the Crimea on her own sixpence and founded the 'British Hotel' which she described as "a mess-table and comfortable quarters for sick and convalescent officers", and provided succour for wounded servicemen on the battlefield.
She was posthumously awarded the Jamaican Order of Merit in 1991. In 2004 she was voted the greatest black Briton. The story from the BBC.
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Here are two videos from Extra Credits YouTube channel telling her story.
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