Author: Charles George Gordon
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Languages : en
Pages : 480

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Author: A. Egmont Hake
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752345101
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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Reproduction of the original: The Journals of Major-Gen. C.G. Gordon , C.B, At Kartoum by A. Egmont Hake

Author: Charles George Gordon
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Category : Khartoum (Sudan)
Languages : en
Pages : 486

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Author: Gordon
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Languages : en
Pages : 672

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Author: Charles George Gordon
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Languages : en
Pages : 670

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Author: Charles George Gordon
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Category : Khartoum (Sudan)
Languages : en
Pages : 578

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Author: Pierre Crabitès
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315442191
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 347

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The critics of Charles George Gordon accused him of vacillation and of instability of character. His supporters refused to admit that he was inconstant; they took the position that it was the Gladstone Cabinet which manifested a spirit of indecision that was fraught with terrible consequences. General Gordon was a prolific letter-writer, and he also kept a journal. Many official notes and dispatches deal with his final mission to Khartoum. This book, first published in 1933, attempts to get at the truth of Gordon’s character and his time in the Sudan through these letters, this journal, these notes and despatches.

Author: John Malcolm Bulloch
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Languages : en
Pages : 440

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Author: C. Brad Faught
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 161234061X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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Charles George Gordon was the preeminent military hero of the late-Victorian British Empire. A lifetime officer in the Royal Engineers, he served in several theaters of war and imperial contest, most notably China and the Sudan. His last assignment took him back to the dusty Sudanese capital, Khartoum, where he supervised the overmatched Anglo-Egyptian garrison's evacuation in the face of imminent attack by Islamic extremists. He was killed there in January 1885, just two days before a British relief expedition arrived. In this new biography of General Gordon, C. Brad Faught looks afresh at the life of one of the most famous Victorian military men. Although a later age would come to reject Gordon's record and the values by which he lived, he has remained an enduring figure in the British Empire's late-nineteenth-century heyday and an important means by which to examine its contemporary issues: abolitionism, territorial conquest, and the rule of dependent peoples. Faught traces Gordon's life from his childhood in England and Corfu to his youth and training as an engineer at the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich and his subsequent military and proconsular service in the Crimea, eastern Europe, China, India, Mauritius, South Africa, and the Sudan. Throughout his varied career Gordon was guided by his staunch, conventional Christian faith--despite his critics' best efforts to suggest otherwise--and remained devoted to the best features of imperial rule. Whether as a key opponent of the Arab slave trade or a leader of troops in battle, Gordon was usually successful in his undertakings but always controversial. This biography gives an up-to-date rendering of an important British imperial figure whose demise at the hands of a Muslim extremist is both resonant and potentially instructive for the era in which we live today.

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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 508

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