what role did she play during the war?
She set up the 'British Hotel' and provided succour for wounded servicemen on the battlefield, and nursed many of them back to health.
Mary Seacole
Mary Jane Seacole ("née" Grant; 23 November 1805 – 14 May 1881) was a British-Jamaican nurse, healer and businesswoman who set up the "British Hotel" behind the lines during the Crimean War. She described this as "a mess-table and comfortable quarters for sick and convalescent officers", and provided succour for wounded servicemen on the battlefield, and nursed many of them back to health. Coming from a tradition of Jamaican and West African "doctresses", Seacole displayed "compassion, skills and bravery while nursing soldiers during the Crimean War", through the use of herbal remedies. She was posthumously awarded the Jamaican Order of Merit in 1991. In 2004, she was voted the greatest black Briton.

Mary Seacole did not have formal British nursing qualifications or training, but relied on her skill and experience as a healer and a doctress from Jamaica. Schools of nursing in England were only set up after the Crimean war, the first being the (Florence) Nightingale Training School, in
who was mary seacole? A British-Jamaican nurse, healer and businesswoman who set up the "British Hotel" behind the lines during the Crimean War. where was she born? Kingston, Jamaica what did she do in the caribbean? She cared for her "old indulgent patroness" who gave financial support to her;  She was occasionally called to provide nursing assistance at the British Army hospital at Up-Park Camp; She married Edwin Horatio Hamilton Seacole in Kingston
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Mary Jane Seacole ("née" Grant; 23 November 1805 – 14 May 1881) was a British-Jamaican nurse, healer and businesswoman who set up the "British Hotel" behind the lines during the Crimean War. She described this as "a mess-table and comfortable quarters for sick and convalescent officers", and provided succour for wounded servicemen on the battlefield, and nursed many of them back to health. Coming from a tradition of Jamaican and West African "doctresses", Seacole displayed "compassion, skills and bravery while nursing soldiers during the Crimean War", through the use of herbal remedies. She was posthumously awarded the Jamaican Order of Merit in 1991.