Great Britain: Major-General Charles George Gordon CB (28 January 1833 - 26 January 1885). Portrait sketch by Amedee Forestier (1854 - 18 November 1930), c. 1880s. Major-General Charles George Gordon, 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 by Mahdist forces during the Mahdist War on January 26, 1885. The manner of his death is uncertain but it was romanticised in in the British media.

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