United KingdomHistory 106 · History
Florence Nightingale is best known for which of these?
- aCaring for wounded soldiers in the Crimean War and founding modern nursingCorrect answer
- bLeading the campaign for women's right to vote in elections to Parliament
- cWriting popular novels about the lives of the poor in Victorian London
- dCampaigning in Parliament and across the country to end the slave trade
Why?
Nightingale improved hospital care for British soldiers during the Crimean War (1853–56). In 1860 she set up a school to train nurses at St Thomas' Hospital in London.
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