Beneath the Banner: Being Narratives of Noble Lives and Brave Deeds
by F. J. Cross
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About This Book
First published in 1914, "Florence Nightingale to Her Nurses" contains a selection of addresses given by Nightingale to the probationers and nurses of The Nightingale School at St. Thomas's Hospital. Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) was an English social reformer, statistician, and pioneer of modern nursing. She became famous during the time she served as manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, giving nursing a positive reputation and becoming a Victorian culture icon. Also known as "The Lady with the Lamp", she was an accomplished writer who produced a large corpus of work relat...
Chapters (79)
- BEING NARRATIVES OF NOBLE LIVES AND BRAVE DEEDS
- ILLUSTRATED
- CONTENTS.
- BENEATH THE BANNER.
- STORIES OF MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN STEADY WHEN "UNDER FIRE".
- ONLY A NURSE GIRL!
- THE STORY OF ALICE AYRES.
- A SLAVE TRADE WARRIOR.
- SOME STORIES OF SIR SAMUEL BAKER.
- TWO WORKING MEN HEROES.
- THE STORY OF CASE AND CHEW.
- THE COMMANDER OF THE "THIN RED LINE".
- THE STORY OF SIR COLIN CAMPBELL.
- A SAILOR BOLD AND TRUE.
- STORIES OF LORD COCHRANE.
- A ROUGH DIAMOND THAT WAS POLISHED.
- THE STORY OF JOHN CASSELL.
- "A BRAVE, FEARLESS SORT OF LASS."
- THE STORY OF GRACE DARLING.
- A FRIEND OF LEPERS.
- THE STORY OF FATHER DAMIEN.
- A GREAT ARCTIC EXPLORER.
- THE STORY OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.
- A SAVIOUR OF SIX
- THE STORY OF FIREMAN FORD.
- A BLIND HELPER OF THE BLIND.
- THE STORY OF ELIZABETH GILBERT.
- A GREAT TRAVELLER IN THE AIR.
- SOME ANECDOTES OF JAMES GLAISHER.
- THE SOLDIER WITH THE MAGIC WAND.
- THE STORY OF GENERAL GORDON.
- "VALIANT AND TRUE."
- THE STORY OF SIR RICHARD GRENVILLE.
- ONE WHO LEFT ALL.
- THE STORY OF BISHOP HANNINGTON.
- A MAN WHO CONQUERED DISAPPOINTMENTS.
- THE STORY OF SIR HENRY HAVELOCK.
- A FRIEND OF PRISONERS.
- THE STORY OF JOHN HOWARD.
- A HERO OF THE VICTORIA CROSS.
- THE STORY OF KAVANAGH.
- THE MAN WHO BRAVED THE FLOOD.
- THE STORY ON CAPTAIN LENDY'S BRAVE DEED.
- A TEMPERANCE LEADER.
- THE STORY OF JOSEPH LIVESEY.
- A GREAT MISSIONARY EXPLORER.
- THE STORY OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE.
- FROM FARM LAD TO MERCHANT PRINCE.
- THE STORY OF GEORGE MOORE.
- A MAN WHO ASKED AND RECEIVED.
- THE STORY OF GEORGE MÜLLER.
- A LABOURER IN THE VINEYARD.
- THE STORY OF ROBERT MOFFAT.
- "THE LADY WITH THE LAMP."
- THE STORY OF FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE.
- FOR ENGLAND, HOME, AND DUTY.
- THE DEATH OF NELSON.
- A WOMAN WHO SUCCEEDED BY FAILURE.
- THE STORY OF HARRIET NEWELL.
- A MARTYR OF THE SOUTH SEAS.
- THE MORNING AND EVENING OF BISHOP PATTESON'S LIFE.
- "K.G. AND COSTER."
- SOME ANECDOTES ABOUT LORD SHAFTESBURY.
- A STATESMAN WHO HAD NO ENEMIES.
- THE STORY OF W.H. SMITH.
- "GREATER THAN AN ARCHBISHOP."
- ANECDOTES ABOUT THE REV. CHARLES SIMEON.
- A SOLDIER MISSIONARY.
- THE STORY OF HEDLEY VICARS.
- THE LASS THAT LOVED THE SAILORS.
- THE STORY OF AGNES WESTON.
- A GREAT COMMANDER ON A FAMOUS BATTLEFIELD
- THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON AT WATERLOO.
- A PRINCE OF PREACHERS.
- THE STORY OF JOHN WESLEY.
- SOME CHILDREN OF THE KINGDOM.
- A BOY HERO.
- THE STORY OF JOHN CLINTON.
- POSTSCRIPT.
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