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Florence Nightingale 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910), who came to be known as "The Lady with the Lamp", was a pioneering nurse, writer and noted statistician. During the Crimean War (1854-1856), the barracks was allocated to the British Army, which were on the way from Britain to the Crimea. After the British troops of the 33rd and 41st Regiments left for the front, the barracks was converted into a temporary military hospital. On November 4, 1854, famous nurse Florence Nightingale arrived in Scutari with 38 volunteer women. Called the "Lady with the Lamp", she cared for thousands of wounded and infected soldiers, and drastically reduced the high mortality rate by improving the sanitary living conditions until she returned home in 1857 as a heroine. The northmost tower of the Selimiye Barracks building is today a museum, and in several of its rooms, relics and reproductions relevant to Florence Nightingale and her nurses are on exhibition. Around 6, 000 soldiers died in the Selimiye Barracks during the war, mostly as the result of cholera epidemic. The dead were buried at a plot next to the barracks, which became later the Haydarpaşa Cemetery.
