The publication of GORDON'S dispatches from Khartoum to Lord WOLSELEY and to the English Government seems to be singularly untimely for Mr. GLADSTONE'S Administration. View Full Article in ...
The ring belonged to my grand-mother who was a cousin of General Gordon of Khartoum ('Chinese Gordon' as he was called) was made from a coin found on his body after he was murdered on the steps of ...
Due to an uprising in the Sudan, led by the Mahdi, British troops were sent to support the Egyptian army and Gordon was posted to Khartoum in 1884. He had evacuated thousands of Egyptian civilians and ...
It does not want to commit a British military force to a foreign war, but they have a commitment to protect the Egyptians in Khartoum. They decide to ask General Charles "Chinese" Gordon (Charlton ...