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Title:Gordon: the man behind the legend
Author:Pollock, JohnISNI
Year:1993
Pages:373
Language:English
City of publisher:London
Publisher:Constable
ISBN:0094685606
Geographic terms:Sudan
Great Britain
Subjects:colonization
Mahdiyya
biographies (form)
About person:Charles George Gordon (1833-1885)ISNI
Abstract:Charles George Gordon was born in England in 1833. He served in India, China, Mauritius, the Sudan and South Africa before he was sent to Khartoum in 1884. He died in Khartoum in 1885, shortly after the Mahdi's troops had taken the town after a siege of almost a year, and two days before a British relief expedition reached the city. Based on original manuscript sources, the author tells Gordon's life history.
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