hospital cemetery scutari constantinople distance 1854 Crimean War British Army military
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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. Selimiye Barracks, also known as Scutari Barracks is a Turkish army barracks located in the Üsküdar district on the Asian part of Istanbul, Turkey. It was built first in 1800 by Sultan Selim III for the soldiers of the newly established regular army in frame of the Ottoman military reform efforts "Nizam-ı Cedid" (literally "New Order").