Category: Biographies
As so many books of a more or less biographical nature have been written about General Charles Gordon, it is both appropriate and natural that I should preface the following pages with a statement of a personal character as to how and why I have written another.
The appointment of any English officer would have led to some improvement in the direction of the Chinese Imperial forces assembled for the suppression of the Taeping rebellion;...
4. Chapter 4Charles Gordon reached Balaclava on New Year's Day, 1855. He found everyone engaged in foraging expeditions, that the siege of Sebastopol excited no interest, that the road from...
9. Chapter 9A brief description of the conquest by Mehemet Ali and his successors of the Soudan--a name signifying nothing more than "the land of the blacks"--and of the events which immedi...
6. Chapter 6In order to bring before the reader the magnitude of Gordon's achievements in China it is necessary to describe briefly the course of the Taeping rebellion, and to show the kind...
5. Chapter 5Gordon was back in England in good time for the Christmas festivities of 1858, and a few months later--1st April 1859--he was gazetted to the rank of Captain. About the same tim...
3. Chapter 3Charles George Gordon was born on 28th January 1833, at No. 1 Kemp Terrace, Woolwich Common, where his father, an officer in the Royal Artillery, was quartered at the time. The...
8. Chapter 8After the exciting and eventful ten years which began in the Crimea and ended in China, the most tranquil period in Gordon's career follows, until he was once again launched on...
1. Chapter 1As so many books of a more or less biographical nature have been written about General Charles Gordon, it is both appropriate and natural that I should preface the following pag...
2. Chapter 2