EMPIRE
ON THE
SEVEN
SEAS
forces
were
melting
away
from
sickness
and
wounds,
she
built
the
first
modern base
hospital,
and the
death
rate
fell
from
42
to
22
in
the
thousand.
How
many
countless
millions
she
may
have
saved
in the
years
since
then it
is
impossible
to
calculate,
for
her
work
was
not
a mere incident
of
a
minor wan
She
not
only continued,
after
peace,
the
reorganization
of
the
Army
Medical
Service
but it
was
due
to
her influence that the
international
Red
Cross
de-
veloped
from the Geneva
Convention
of
1864.
'Incidentally
she
so raised the
status of
women in
the
public
mind that the
woman's
movement
in
all
its
many
aspects
felt the
magic
touch of
her name
throughout
the
world.
The
names
of
the
battles
Alma,
Balaclava,
and
Inkerman,
to-
gether
with
the
siege
and
fall
of
Sebastopol
added
to
the
roll
of
regimental
honors,
and
helped
to
build
the
regimental
spirit
which
has counted
for
so
much
in the
history
of the
army.
Even
one
of
the
worst
mistakes
in a
long
record of
them crowded into
the
three
years
of
the
war
was
so
magnificent
in the
heroism
of
the
men
sacrificed
that it
has been woven into the
spiritual
life of
the
nation
as
immortalized
in
Tennyson's
Charge
of
the
Light
Brigade.
In
the
larger
international
field
this
centralized
and
compara-
tively unimportant
war was
to
prove
momentous. A
unified
Italy
was
eventually
to
develop
from
it.
France
had
apparently
become
the
leader
on the
Continent,
with
the imitation
Napoleon
at
her
head
looking
for
glory,
but
had
antagonized
Austria
and
Britain.
When
a
few
years
later
the
Germany rising
under
Bismarck should
strike
at
her,
Germany
would
be allowed to
have her
way
and
a
broad
highway
opened
for
events
to travel down to
our own
troubled times. The "Sick
Man"
was
declared to be well
again,
and
for
the nonce
there
was no international
vacuum on
the
shores
of
the
Bosphorus.
In
connection
with
the Peace Conference the
powers
agreed
to the
Declaration of
Paris,
which abolished
priva-
teering, agreed
that
blockades must be effective to
be
recognized,
and
that
a neutral
flag
should
cover
enemy goods
if
not
contra-
band.
For
the
moment,
and
perhaps
ominously
for
the
future,
the
war
appeared
to have
brought
a
Jingo
spirit
with
it.
When Palm-
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