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Florence Nightingale was a nurse who saved many people in the 19th cenury. She was named after the city of Florence in Italy.
Florence was unusual young woman for her time, bemuse she didn't want to go to parties and get married. She wanted to be a nurse and help people. Her family (not)want her to become a nurse because hospitals back then were dirty, horrible places.
the age of thirty-one, Florence went to Germany and learned all about nursing. It was hard work, she loved it.
In 1854, lots of British soldiers went to fight in the Crimean War. Army hospitals were filled with injured people, but there (be)no nurses and many soldiers died. Florence and a team of nurses went to help.
Florence worked 20 hours a day to make the hospital (clean)and safer place. She brought fresh food, she cleaned the beds and she used clean bandages on the wounded soldiers fewer (man) were dying.
At night, Florence talked to the injured soldiers and helped them (write) letters to their families. They called her "the lady with the lamp", she always carried a lamp.
When Florence returned to England, people called her a hero. Queen Victoria wrote her a letter to say thanks, She (give)the honor(荣誉)—-Order of Merit, becoming the first woman to receive it