This 125-year-old rescue plea written in Arabic on a tiny scrap of paper by General Gordon of Khartoum is up for auction. 26 January 2009 • 11:45pm The note was written in Gordon's hand and was ...

He was sent to Khartoum on February 18, 1884 with vague instructions from the Gladstone cabinet. Gordon evacuated some 2,600 civilians and soldiers before the city was blockaded in March.

Unfortunately, General Gordon's Last Stand, by George William Joy, now hanging in the Leeds City Art Gallery is a piece of Victorian myth-making. Iconic it may be, but the events it depicts may ...

gordon heard from; the latest reports from khartoum and sennaar.a general belief that gordon is in the power of the mahdi and that the reports about him are false. Share full article July 21, 1884 ...

CHINESE GORDON: THE STORY OF A HERO (256 pp.)—Lawrence and Elisabeth Hanson—Funk & Waqnalls ($4).When General Charles George Gordon was speared to death at Khartoum in 1885, Queen ...

The ring belonged to my grand-mother who was a cousin of General Gordon of Khartoum ('Chinese Gordon' as he was called) was made from a coin found on his body after he was murdered on the steps of ...

Much of the Nile being too shallow for boats between the mouth and Khartoum, the city was hidden behind hundreds of miles of desert in one of the least accessible places on Earth. The Mahdi (“Guided ...

A popular historian and raconteur best known for his talks about the life and times of Lord Nelson and Richard III is set to return to Pershore in… ...