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Gordon - Victorian Hero (Paperback)
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Gordon - Victorian Hero (Paperback)
Series: Military Profiles
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List price R380
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Charles George Gordon was the preeminent military hero of the
late-Victorian British Empire. A lifetime officer in the Royal
Engineers, he served in several theaters of war and imperial
contest, most notably China and the Sudan. His last assignment took
him back to the dusty Sudanese capital, Khartoum, where he
supervised the overmatched Anglo-Egyptian garrison's evacuation in
the face of imminent attack by Islamic extremists. He was killed
there in January 1885, just two days before a British relief
expedition arrived.In this new biography of General Gordon, C. Brad
Faught looks afresh at the life of one of the most famous Victorian
military men. Although a later age would come to reject Gordon's
record and the values by which he lived, he has remained an
enduring figure in the British Empire's late-nineteenth-century
heyday and an important means by which to examine its contemporary
issues: abolitionism, territorial conquest, and the rule of
dependent peoples. Faught traces Gordon's life from his childhood
in England and Corfu to his youth and training as an engineer at
the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich and his subsequent military
and proconsular service in the Crimea, eastern Europe, China,
India, Mauritius, South Africa, and the Sudan. Throughout his
varied career Gordon was guided by his staunch, conventional
Christian faith-despite his critics' best efforts to suggest
otherwise-and remained devoted to the best features of imperial
rule. Whether as a key opponent of the Arab slave trade or a leader
of troops in battle, Gordon was usually successful in his
undertakings but always controversial. This biography gives an
up-to-date rendering of an important British imperial figurewhose
demise at the hands of a Muslim extremist is both resonant and
potentially instructive for the era in which we live today.
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