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Gordon was born in Woolwich, Kent, a son of Major General Henry William Gordon (1786–1865) and Elizabeth (1792–1873), daughter of Samuel Enderby Junior.The men of the Gordon family had served as officers in the British Army for four generations, and as a son of a general, Gordon was raised to be the fifth generation; the possibility that Gordon would pursue anything other than a military ...
Gordon arrived at Khartoum on 18 February 1884, finding it was safely occupied by a garrison of 7,000 Egyptian troops and 27,000 civilians. [7] However three smaller garrisons, at Sennar , Tokar and Sinkat , were under siege by the Mahdists. [ 8 ]
Statue of General Gordon, seated on a camel, at Khartoum Iconographic Collections Keywords: Gordon. Credit line:
Major-General Gordon was lionised as a British war hero after his death at the end of the Siege of Khartoum in January 1885. The statue was made in 1887–88. Gordon's brother, Sir Henry Gordon, advised Thornycroft to minimise the military character of the statue, and emphasis Gordon's qualities of strength of mind, love, kindness and affection.
General Gordon's Last Stand, 1893 painted by George W. Joy. It is one of the most famous parts of the palace, due to its appearance on an oil painting by George W. Joy telling the death of Gordon Pasha, which is currently in the Leeds City Museum. General Gordon Pasha, Governor-General of Sudan, lived on the first floor in the western wing of ...
George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon: Golden Square: 1842: Thomas Campbell with Macdonald Field & Co. Statue on pedestal: Granite: Category B: Q17770129 [5] [7] More images: Gordon of Khartoum: In front of Robert Gordon's College, Schoolhill: 1884: Thomas Stuart Burnett: Statue on pedestal: Bronze and granite: 5m high Category B: Q17770171 [5] [8 ...
Gordon Memorial College was an educational institution in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. It was built between 1899 and 1902 as part of Lord Kitchener 's wide-ranging educational reforms. Named for General Charles George Gordon of the British army, who was killed during the Mahdi uprising in 1885, it was officially opened on 8 November 1902 by Kitchener ...
The Nile Expedition, sometimes called the Gordon Relief Expedition (1884–1885), was a British mission to relieve Major-General Charles George Gordon at Khartoum, Sudan. Gordon had been sent to Sudan to help the Egyptians withdraw their garrisons after the British decided to abandon Sudan in the face of a rebellion led by self-proclaimed Mahdi ...