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Letters from the Crimea, the Danube and Armenia - August 18, 1854, to November 17, 1858 (Paperback)
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Letters from the Crimea, the Danube and Armenia - August 18, 1854, to November 17, 1858 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - European History
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Total price: R803
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This volume of letters was published in 1884, when General Gordon
(1833-85) was engaged in the controversial defence of Khartoum that
claimed his life the following year. The reputation of 'Chinese'
Gordon, a complex figure, unpopular with the British government and
military but adored by the people and press, was fed by works such
as this. Covering his time in the Crimea as a young lieutenant, and
later in the drawing up of the new frontiers between the Russian
and Ottoman empires, these letters were published by his later
biographer, Demetrius C. Boulger (1853-1928) as evidence of
Gordon's strength of character and value as a military leader. One
reviewer noted in them an 'indomitable cheerfulness of disposition,
patient endurance, trustful fatalism, simple courage and faith, ...
[and] single-hearted devotion to duty', words which reflected the
popular view of Gordon as a symbol of British national pride and
imperial honour.
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