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.January 1865, the month Gordon reached Southampton, meant the return home of the hero of the Ever Victorious Army.. Gordon had taken his time making the journey, the better to think about, one supposes, the only question important to the just-shy-of-thirty-two-year old: what was next in the life of “Chinese Gordon”?
Faught, C. Brad. Gordon: Victorian Hero (Military Profiles) (p. 34). Potomac Books. Kindle Edition.
— Feb 06, 2021 09:29AM
Faught, C. Brad. Gordon: Victorian Hero (Military Profiles) (p. 34). Potomac Books. Kindle Edition.
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Gary Inbinder
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"The peasantry of the Northwest and Southwest of Ireland,” charged Gordon, “are much worse off than any of the inhabitants of Bulgaria, Asia Minor, China, India or the Sudan.” Having been to all of the places named, he was speaking with the voice of authority....
Faught, C. Brad. Gordon: Victorian Hero (Military Profiles) (p. 69). Potomac Books. Kindle Edition.
— Feb 08, 2021 07:48AM
Faught, C. Brad. Gordon: Victorian Hero (Military Profiles) (p. 69). Potomac Books. Kindle Edition.
Gary Inbinder
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The institution (slavery) would be prohibited incrementally throughout both Egypt and Sudan, Gordon proposed, with complete abolition coming in 1889. Gordon’s scheme...became the basis for the Anglo-Egyptian Convention for the Suppression of the Slave Trade signed in August 1877.
Faught, C. Brad. Gordon: Victorian Hero (Military Profiles) (p. 56). Potomac Books. Kindle Edition.
— Feb 07, 2021 08:50AM
Faught, C. Brad. Gordon: Victorian Hero (Military Profiles) (p. 56). Potomac Books. Kindle Edition.
Gary Inbinder
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Strachey was to use Chaille-Long’s recollections of the Equatorial campaign as the basis for his profile of Gordon. None of what Chaille-Long wrote was corroborated by anyone else on Gordon’s staff. It would seem that early on in the expedition Gordon had found the American to be vain and nearly useless....
Faught, C. Brad. Gordon: Victorian Hero (Military Profiles) (p. 49). Potomac Books. Kindle Edition.
— Feb 07, 2021 07:58AM
Faught, C. Brad. Gordon: Victorian Hero (Military Profiles) (p. 49). Potomac Books. Kindle Edition.
Gary Inbinder
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In early 1853, the then-militant Taiping converts conquered and held Nanking, the second city of the Chinese empire, killing thirty thousand people in the process, a portent of the long years of bloodshed to come. Peking was the ultimate goal...
Faught, C. Brad. Gordon: Victorian Hero (Military Profiles) (p. 24). Potomac Books. Kindle Edition.
— Feb 06, 2021 08:44AM
Faught, C. Brad. Gordon: Victorian Hero (Military Profiles) (p. 24). Potomac Books. Kindle Edition.
Gary Inbinder
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,,,the task before Gordon during the summer of 1855 in Crimea was to ensure that the British trenches remained in good repair and that his commanders were supplied with up-to-date intelligence on the Russian defenses. “If you want to know what the Russians are up to,” the engineers .. said, “send for Charlie Gordon.”
Faught, C. Brad. Gordon: Victorian Hero (Military Profiles) (p. 16). Potomac Books. Kindle Edition.
— Feb 05, 2021 07:38AM
Faught, C. Brad. Gordon: Victorian Hero (Military Profiles) (p. 16). Potomac Books. Kindle Edition.