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Gordon, Charles George, known as Chinese Gordon 1833-85
English general
Born in Woolwich, London, he joined the Royal Engineers in 1852, and in 1855-56 fought in the Crimean War. In 1860 he went to China, where he crushed the Taiping Rebellion. In 1877 he was appointed Governor of the Sudan. He resigned in poor health in 1880, but returned in 1884 to relieve Egyptian garrisons which lay in rebel territory. He was besieged at Khartoum for 10 months by the troops of the Mahdi (Muhammad Ahmed) and killed there two days before a relief force arrived.
Bibliography: Anthony Nutting, Gordon of Khartoum: Martyr and Misfit (1966)
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