Major General Charles George Gordon (known as Gordon of Khartoum) has a memorial in the north west tower chapel near the west entrance to Westminster Abbey. The mural monument of bronze is by Edward ...

Bible-reading General Charles George (“Chinese”) Gordon* to restore order. Instead, the fanatical dervishes bottled up the undermanned British garrison in Khartoum, hacked Gordon to death with ...

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 ...

The current president of Khartoum's government is Omar al Bashir, an upstart general who came to power in a 1989 coup -- the fourth coup in Sudan since its independence. Many predicted al Bashir ...

The Sudanese army’s offensive across the Nile in the capital, Khartoum, was heralded by ... ago a Mahdist army overran and ...