The life of Gordon, major-general, RECB.; Turkish field-marshal, Grand cordon Medjidieh, and pasha; Chinese titv (field-marshal) yellow jacket order . n and disastrous close. I am permitted by the courtesy of the proprietors of TheTimes to reproduce in these pages the several articles andletters which originally appeared in the columns of that paper. It is a personal matter, of no interest except to myself, butI should like to state that the work would have been out muchsooner but for a long and serious illness. DEMETRIUS C. BOULGERicjth Atigust 1896. CONTENTS. CHAP. I. BIRTH AND EARLY LIFE11.
The life of Gordon, major-general, RECB.; Turkish field-marshal, Grand cordon Medjidieh, and pasha; Chinese titv (field-marshal) yellow jacket order . n and disastrous close. I am permitted by the courtesy of the proprietors of TheTimes to reproduce in these pages the several articles andletters which originally appeared in the columns of that paper. It is a personal matter, of no interest except to myself, butI should like to state that the work would have been out muchsooner but for a long and serious illness. DEMETRIUS C. BOULGERicjth Atigust 1896. CONTENTS. CHAP. I. BIRTH AND EARLY LIFE11. THE CRIMEA, DANUBE, AND ARMENIA III. THE CHINA WAR IV. THE TAEPING REBELLIONV. THE EVER-VICTORIOUS ARMY VI. GRAVESEND AND GALATZVII. THE FIRST NILE JIISSIONVIII. GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF THE SOUDANIX. MINOR MISSIONS—INDIA AND CHINAX. THE MAURITIUS, THE CAPE, AND THE CONGOXI, THE LAST NILE MISSIONXII. KHARTOUM ..... PAGEI i6 456i 78127141165202229261298 ILLUSTRATIONS. PORTRAIT OF GENERAL GORDOX, TAKEN SOON AFTER THE CRIMEA . FtonihpieceHOUSE IN WHICH GENERAL GORDON WAS BCRM . ToJxcepage l6 PORTRAIT OF GENERAL GORDON, With Autograph . ), ,: 195. GENERAL CORDON, FROM A PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN SHORTLY AFTELP THE LENT BY HIS NIECE. MISS DUN LOP. THE LIFE OF GORDON. CHAPTER I. BIRTH AND EARLY LIFE. Charles Geokge Gordon was born on 28th January 1833, atNo. I Kemp Terrace, Woolwich Common, where his father, an officerin the Royal Artillery, was quartered at the time. The picture givenelsewhere of this house will specially interest the reader as the birth-place of Gordon. It still stands, as described by Gordons father ina private memoir, at the corner of Jacksons Lane, on WoolwichCommon. The name Gordon has baffled the etymologists, for there is everyreason to believe that the not inappropriate connection with theDanish word for a spear is due to a felicitous fancy rather than to anysubstantial reality. There is far more justification for the opinion thatthe name comes through a Fre
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