Mary Seacole - going to the Crimea

Question 1

Did Seacole apply to be a nurse?
+ was she successful?

Answer 1

YES - applied multiple times in 1854
+
rejected each time & told ‘had there been a vacancy she would not have been chosen

Question 2

What did Seacole do after being rejected?

Answer 2

sails to Crimea in Jan 1855 to join Thomad Day
- rejected a final time in Scutari by FN
- travels on to the Crimea, setting up outside Balaklava