Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Life of Gordon: Major-General, R. E, C. B.; Turkish Field-Marshal, Grand Cordon Medjidieh, and Pasha; Chinese Titu (Field-Marshal), Yellow Jacket Order
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.
In the year 1881 I told General Gordon that I contemplated describing his career as soon as I had finished writing my History of China. His laughing reply was: You know I shall never read it, but you can have all my papers now in the possession Of my brother, Sir Henry Gordon. My history took a very long time to write, and the third volume was not published until April 1884, when General Gordon was hemmed in, to use his own words, at Khartoum.
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