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Title: Florence Nightingale : a biography
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Matheson, Annie, 1853-
Subjects: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 Evatt, George Joseph Hamilton, b. 1843 Nurses
Publisher: London Edinburgh New York : Thomas Nelson and Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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the French cast oil upon thesmouldering flame by sending a fleet to Salamis.This greatly angered Nicholas, and, although hewas pleased to find England disapproved of whatFrance had done, Mentschikojff offered a secrettreaty to Turkey, with ships and men, if she everneeded help, and asked in return for completecontrol of the Greek Church. This broke all hispromises to the Western Powers, and Englandat once was made aware of it by the Turkishminister. Prince Mentschikoff meanwhile drew tohimself an army, and the English Vice-consulat Galatz reported that in Bessarabia preparationswere already made for the passage of 120,000men, while battalions from all directions weremaking southward—the fleet was even then atSebastopol. The double-dealing of Russia was met by agradual and tacit alliance between England andthe Sultan ; and Lord Aberdeen, whose love ofpeace has been described by one historian as passionate and fanatical, was unknowinglytying his own hands by the advice he gave in his
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Florence Nightingale. LFr(>m the painting in the National Portrait Gallery by Augustus Egg, R.A.) FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE. 89 despatches when consulted by Turkey. More-over, in Turkey, our ambassador, Lord Stratfordde RedclifFe, stiffened the back of Ottomanresistance against the Czars wily handling of the sick man. Lord Stratfords tact and forceof character had moulded all to his will, and ouradmiral at Malta was told to obey any directionshe received from him. Our fleets were orderedinto the neighbourhood of the Dardanelles, andLord Stratford held his watch at Therapia againstthe gathering wrath of the Czar. Only a verylittle kindling touch was needed to light thefires of a terrible conflict in Europe. CHAPTER VI. Pastor Fliedner. A PEBBLE thrown into a lake sends the tiny circ-ling ripples very far, and one good piece of workleads to others of a quite different kind. PastorFliedner, inspired by love to his Master anddeeply interested in Elizabeth Frys efforts, beganto help prisoner

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