Sudan/United Kingdom: 'Death of General Gordon at Khartoum'. Photomechanical print by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (8 August 1863 - 18 March 1930), 1895. Major-General Charles George Gordon (28 January 1833 - 26 January 1885), also known as Chinese Gordon and Gordon Pasha, was a British Army officer and administrator who saw action in the Crimean War and in China. He served the Khedive of Egypt in 1873, becoming the Governor-General of the Sudan. General Gordon was killed in Khartoum by Mahdist forces during the Mahdist War on January 26, 1885, and his death was romanticised back in the UK.

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