Charles George Gordon
Charles George Gordon (1833-85), British general. In 1858, after service in the Crimea and Armenia, he was posted to China, where his successful command won him the nickname of ‘Chinese Gordon’. As governor of the Sudan, then under Egyptian rule, he worked:, strenuously to suppress rebels and slavers until 1880. He returned there in .1884 to evacuate the country, threatened by the rebellious followers of the Sudanese sheik Mandi, and was trapped in Khartoum. After ten months’ siege, the city was captured and Gordon killed, just two days before the arrival of relief forces.
