Mary Seacole: A Courageous Heroine of the Crimean War

Mary was a courageous woman. She would spend all her money on medicine and bandages for the soldiers. She would risk her own life by travelling to the front line within the warzone to deliver medicine to the soldiers. Soldiers would come and recover in her hospital. They were so taken by her love and care that she was affectionately referred to as Mother Seacole. Finally in 1856, the British beat the Russians in the Crimea and the general invited Mary to be the first woman to cross into the city of Sebastopol once it had been taken from the Russians. The soldiers were incredibly pleased to see her and chanted her name as she walked towards them.