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Quote: Death[edit] George W. Joy's portrayal of Gordon's death The manner of his death is uncertain but it was romanticized in a popular painting by George William Joy - General Gordon's Last Stand (1885, currently in the Leeds City Art Gallery), and again in the film Khartoum (1966) with Charlton Heston as Gordon. Gordon was apparently killed about an hour before dawn, at the Governor-General's palace. As recounted in Bernard M. Allen’s article "How Khartoum Fell" (1941), the Mahdi had given strict orders to his three Khalifas not to kill Gordon. However, the orders were not obeyed. Gordon died on the steps of a stairway in the northwestern corner of the palace, where he and his personal bodyguard, Agha Khalil Orphali, had been firing at the enemy. Orphali was knocked unconscious and did not see Gordon die. When he woke up again that afternoon, he found Gordon's body covered with flies and the head cut off.[14] A merchant, Bordeini Bey, glimpsed Gordon standing on the palace steps in a white uniform looking into the darkness. Reference is made to an 1889 account of the General surrendering his sword to a senior Mahdist officer, then being struck and subsequently speared in the side as he rolled down the staircase.[15] When Gordon's head was unwrapped at the Mahdi's feet, he ordered the head transfixed between the branches of a tree "…where all who passed it could look in disdain, children could throw stones at it and the hawks of the desert could sweep and circle above."[citation needed] His body was desecrated and thrown down a well.[16] After the reconquest of the Sudan, in 1898, several attempts were made to locate Gordon's remains, but in vain. In the hours following Gordon's death an estimated 10,000 civilians and members of the garrison were killed in Khartoum.[16] The massacre was finally halted by orders of the Mahdi. Many of Gordon's papers were saved and collected by two of his sisters, Helen Clark Gordon, who married Gordon's medical colleague in China, Dr. Moffit, and Mary, who married Gerald Henry Blunt. Gordon's papers, as well as some of his grandfather's (Samuel Enderby III), were accepted by the British Library around 1937. Memorials[edit] News of Gordon's death led to an "unprecedented wave of public grief across Britain." A memorial service, conducted by the Bishop of Newcastle, was held at St. Paul's Cathedral on 14 March. The Lord Mayor of London opened a public subscription to raise funds for a permanent memorial to Gordon; this eventually materialized as the Gordon Boys Home, now Gordon's School in West End, Woking.[17][18] Statues were erected in Trafalgar Square, London, in Chatham, Gravesend, Melbourne and Khartoum. Southampton, where Gordon had stayed with his sister, Augusta, in Rockstone Place prior to his departure to the Sudan, erected a memorial in Porter's Mead, now Queen's Park, near the town's docks.[17] On 16 October 1885, the "light and elegant structure" was unveiled; it comprises a stone base on which there are four polished red Aberdeen granite columns, about twenty feet high. The columns are surmounted by carved capitals supporting a cross. The pedestal bears the arms of the Gordon clan and of the borough of Southampton, and also Gordon’s name in Chinese. Around the base is an inscription referring to Gordon as a soldier, philanthropist and administrator; the inscription mentions those parts of the world in which he served, and closes with a quotation from his last letter to his sisters: "I am quite happy, thank God! and, like Lawrence, I have tried to do my duty."[19] The memorial is a Grade II listed building.[20] Gordon Lodge, close to Queen Victoria's Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, was demolished in the 1980s to be replaced by a retirement complex of the same name. Gordon's memory, as well as his work in supervising the town's riverside fortifications, is commemorated in Gravesend; the embankment of the Riverside Leisure Area is known as the Gordon Promenade, while Khartoum Place lies just to the south. Located in the town center of his birthplace of Woolwich is General Gordon Square, while one of the first Woolwich Free Ferry vessels was named Gordon in his memory.[21] In 1888 a statue of Gordon by Hamo Thornycroft was erected in Trafalgar Square, London, exactly halfway between the two fountains. It was removed in 1943. In a House of Commons speech on 5 May 1948, then opposition leader Winston Churchill spoke out in favor of the statue's return to its original location: "Is the right honorable Gentleman (the Minister of Works) aware that General Gordon was not only a military commander, who gave his life for his country, but, in addition, was considered very widely throughout this country as a model of a Christian hero, and that very many cherished ideals are associated with his name? Would not the right honorable Gentleman consider whether this statue might not receive special consideration ? General Gordon was a figure outside and above the ranks of military and naval commanders." However, in 1953 the statue minus a large slice of its pedestal was reinstalled on the Victoria Embankment, in front of the newly built Ministry of Defence. An identical statue by Thornycroft—but with the pedestal intact—is located in a small park called Gordon Reserve, near Parliament House in Melbourne, Australia (a statue of the unrelated poet, Adam Lindsay Gordon, lies in the same reserve). Funded by donations from 100,000 citizens, it was unveiled in 1889. Statue in Gordon Reserve, Melbourne Statue on the Victoria Embankment, London The Corps of Royal Engineers, Gordon's own Corps, commissioned a statue of Gordon on a camel. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1890 and then erected in Brompton Barracks, Chatham, the home of the Royal School of Military Engineering, where it still stands. Much later a second casting was made. In 1902 it was placed at the junction of St Martin's Lane and Charing Cross Road in London. In 1904 it was moved to Khartoum, where it stood at the intersection of Gordon Avenue and Victoria Avenue, 200 meters south of the new palace that had been built in 1899. It was removed in 1958, shortly after the Sudan became independent. This is the figure which, since 1960, stands at the Gordon's School in Woking. The Royal Engineers Museum adjoining the barracks has many artifacts relating to Gordon including personal possessions. There are also memorials to Gordon in the nearby Rochester Cathedral. A statue of General Gordon can be found in Aberdeen outside the main gates of Robert Gordon's College, a city-based independent school. In St Paul's Cathedral, London, a slightly larger than life-size effigy of Gordon is flanked by a relief commemorating general Herbert Stewart (1843–1885), who had commanded the "flying column" of camel-borne troops, and who was mortally wounded on 19 January 1885. Stewart's grave can still be found at the Jakdul Wells in the Bayuda Desert. The commander of the Khartoum Relief Expedition 1884-1885, Sir Garnet Wolseley, lies buried beneath the effigies of Gordon and Stewart in the crypt of St Paul's. There is a bust of Gordon in Westminster Abbey, just to the left of the main entrance when entering the building, above a doorway. A rather fine stained-glass portrait is to be found on the main stairs of the Booloominbah building at the University of New England, in Armidale, New South Wales, Australia. The Fairey Gordon Bomber, designed to act as part of the RAF's colonial 'aerial police force' in the Imperial territories that he helped conquer (India and North Africa), was named in his honor. The City of Geelong, Australia, created a memorial in the form of the Gordon Technical College, which was later renamed the Gordon Institute of Technology. Part of the Institute continues under the name Gordon Institute of TAFE and the remainder was amalgamated with the Geelong State College to become Deakin University. The suburbs of Gordon in northern Sydney and Gordon Park in northern Brisbane were named after General Gordon, as was the former Shire of Gordon in Victoria, Australia. An elementary school in Vancouver, British Columbia, is named after General Gordon. Gordon Memorial College is a school in Khartoum. A grammar school in Medway, Kent, England, called Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School, has a house named in honor of Charles George Gordon, called Gordon. In Gloucester, there is a rugby union club called Gordon League which was formed in 1888 by Agnes Jane Waddy. The club plays in Western Counties North. The Gordon League Fishing Club uses the rugby club as its home. Gordon's Boys' Clubs were organized after General Gordon's death and the Gloucester Gordon League may be the last remaining example. The Church Missionary Society (CMS) work in Sudan was undertaken under the name of the Gordon Memorial Mission. This was a very evangelical branch of CMS and was able to start work in Sudan in 1900 as soon as the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium took control after the fall of Khartoum in 1899. In 1885 at a meeting in London, £3,000 were allocated to a Gordon Memorial Mission in Sudan.[22] In Khartoum, there is a small shrine to Gordon in the back of Republican Palace Museum. The museum was previously the city's largest Anglican Church, and is now dedicated primarily to gifts to Sudanese ######### of State. In the rear corner, there is a plaque commemorating those who fell with Gordon during the siege. Above is an encomium in brass letters, most of which have long since fallen off the wall leaving only silhouettes. It reads "Charles George Gordan [sic], Servant of Jesus Christ, Whose Labour Was Not in Vain with the Lord." In the Presidential Palace in Khartoum (built in 1899), in the west wing on the ground floor, there is (or once was) a stone slab against the wall on the left side of the main corridor when coming from the main entrance with the text: "Charles George Gordon died - 26 Jan 1885," on the spot where Gordon was killed, at the foot of the stairs in the old Governor-General's Palace (built around 1850). Personality and beliefs[edit] Gordon, who never married, was 5-feet 5 inches tall[citation needed]; the Rev. Reginald Barnes, who knew him well, describes him as "of the middle height, very strongly built,"[23] He was a Christian evangelist who visited the sick and old and set up a boys' club in Gravesend in Kent.[citation needed] He was an ardent Christian cosmologist who believed, amongst other things, that the Earth was enclosed in a hollow sphere with God's throne directly above the altar of the Temple in Jerusalem, the Devil inhabiting the opposite point of the globe near Pitcairn Island in the Pacific.[citation needed] He also believed that the Garden of Eden was on the island of Praslin in the Seychelles.[24] Gordon believed in reincarnation. In 1877, he wrote in a letter: "This life is only one of a series of lives which our incarnated part has lived. I have little doubt of our having pre-existed; and that also in the time of our pre-existence we were actively employed. So, therefore, I believe in our active employment in a future life, and I like the thought."[25] Media portrayals and legacy[edit] Charlton Heston played Gordon in the 1966 epic film Khartoum, which deals with the siege of Khartoum. Gordon's heroics have also been drawn on in the 2005 novel The Triumph of the Sun by Wilbur Smith. The 2008 novel After Omdurman by John Ferry deals with the reconquest of the Sudan and highlights how the Anglo-Egyptian army was driven to avenge Gordon's death. Many biographies have been written of Gordon, most of them of a highly hagiographic nature. By contrast, Gordon is one of the four subjects discussed critically in Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey, one of the first texts about Gordon that portrays some of his characteristics which Strachey regards as weaknesses. Notably, Strachey emphasizes the claims of Charles Chaillé-Long that Gordon was an alcoholic, an accusation dismissed by later writers like Alan Moorehead[26] and Charles Chenevix Trench.[27] Another attempt to debunk Gordon was Anthony Nutting's Gordon, Martyr and Misfit (1966). In his Mission to Khartum—The Apotheosis of General Gordon (1969) John Marlowe portrays Gordon as "a colourful eccentric—a soldier of fortune, a skilled guerrilla leader, a religious crank, a minor philanthropist, a gadfly buzzing about on the outskirts of public life" who would have been no more than a footnote in today's history books, had it not been for "his mission to Khartoum and the manner of his death," which were elevated by the media "into a kind of contemporary Passion Play." More balanced biographies are Charley Gordon—An Eminent Victorian Reassessed (1978) by Charles Chenevix Trench and Gordon—the Man Behind the Legend (1988) by John Pollock. In Khartoum—The Ultimate Imperial Adventure (2005), Michael Asher puts Gordon's works in the Sudan in a broad context. Asher concludes: "He did not save the country from invasion or disaster, but among the British heroes of all ages, there is perhaps no other who stands out so prominently as an individualist, a man ready to die for his principles. Here was one man among men who did not do what he was told, but what he believed to be right. In a world moving inexorably towards conformity, it would be well to remember Gordon of Khartoum."[28] His legacy also lives on in Gordons School, West End, Woking, Surrey, England where the students learn about him and carry out parades. The students wear the traditional Gordons tartan for these parades. There is also a statue there of General Gordon on a camel; in 2013 the statue was damaged and in 2014 renovation work started on it. See also[edit] Battle of Omdurman Notes[edit] Jump up ^ London Gazette, Monday August 4th, 1858, No. 21909 Jump up ^ London Gazette, Friday May 1, 1857, No. 21996 ^ Jump up to: a b "Gordon, Charles George". Dictionary of national biography, 22: pp. 169–176. 1890. Jump up ^ Ch'ing China: The Taiping Rebellion[dead link] ^ Jump up to: a b c Platt, Part II "Order Rising" ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Platt, Ch. 15 Jump up ^ "Charles George Gordon (1833-1885): A Brief Biography". Victorianweb.org. 2010-06-09. Retrieved 2013-01-27. Jump up ^ Slave trade in the Sudan in the nineteenth century and its suppression in the years 1877-80.[dead link] Jump up ^ MacGregor Hastie, p. 26 Jump up ^ "General Charles "Chinese" Gordon Reveals He is Going to Palestine". SMF Primary Source Documents. Shapell Manuscript Foundation. Jump up ^ Mersh, Paul. "Charles Gordon's Charitable Works: An Appreciation". Jump up ^ Beresford, p 102–103 ^ Jump up to: a b Pakenham, T. The Scramble for Africa 1876-1912, Random House (1991). p. 268 Jump up ^ Neufeld 1899, Appendix II, p. 332-337 Jump up ^ Latimer 1903 ^ Jump up to: a b Pakenham, T. The Scramble for Africa 1876-1912, Random House (1991). p. 272 ^ Jump up to: a b Taylor, Miles (October 2007). Southampton: Gateway to the British Empire. I.B.Tauris. pp. 83–92. ISBN 1845110323. Jump up ^ "Gordon's School". Gordons.surrey.sch.uk. Retrieved 2013-01-27. Jump up ^ Grant, James (1885). Cassell's history of the war in the Soudan. Cassell. p. 146. Retrieved 13 May 2012. Jump up ^ "Monument to General Gordon". The National Heritage List. English Heritage. Retrieved 13 May 2012. Jump up ^ Rogers, Robert. "Woolwich Ferry". The Newham Story. Retrieved 27 August 2012. Jump up ^ The Sudan under Wingate: administration in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1899-1916 by Gabriel Warburg Jump up ^ Barnes (1885) p. 1 Jump up ^ Linda Colley, Ghosts of Empire by Kwasi Kwarteng - review, The Guardian, 2 September 2011. Accessed 3 September 2011. Jump up ^ Trench (1978) p. 128 Jump up ^ The White Nile, p. 179 Jump up ^ Charley Gordon-An Eminent Victorian Reassessed, p. 95 Jump up ^ Asher (2005), p. 413 References[edit] Allen, Bernard M. "How Khartoum Fell," Journal of the Royal African Society, Vol. 40, No. 161 (Oct., 1941), pp. 327–334. Asher, Michael. Khartoum—The Ultimate Imperial Adventure, (2005), 450 pp. Barnes, Reginald. Charles George Gordon—A Sketch, London: Macmillan and Co. (1885), 104 pp., available online Beresford, John. Storm and Peace, London: Cobden-Sanderson [1936] (1977), 269 pp. Charles George Gordon. Reflections in Palestine. London: Macmillan and Co. (1884). [1] Churchill, Winston, Sir. The River War, New York: Carroll and Graf [1899]; Partridge Green: Biblios (2000), ISBN 0-7867-0751-8 Faught, C. Brad. Gordon: Victorian Hero, Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books (2008), ISBN 978-1-59797-144-7 Hill, George Birkbeck, ed. Colonel Gordon in Central Africa, 1874-1879] London: Thomas De La Rue and Co.(1881). [2] Latimer, E.W. "Gordon and the Mahdi," in Europe in Africa in the Nineteenth Century, 4th Ed. A.C. McClurg, Chicago (1895, 1903). MacGregor-Hastie, Roy. Never to be Taken Alive—A Biography of General Gordon, (1985) ISBN 0-283-99184-4 Neufeld, Charles. A Prisoner of the Khaleefa], London: Chapman and Hall (1899). [3] Platt, Stephen R. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War, Knopf (2012), ISBN 978-0-307-95759-7 Pollock, John. Gordon : the Man Behind the Legend, London: Constable (1993), ISBN 0-09-468560-6 Smith, George Barnett. General Gordon The Christian Soldier and Hero, London: S.W. Partridge and Co. (1896), 160 pp. Strachey, G. Lytton. Eminent Victorians, Illustrated Ed., London: Bloomsbury [1918] (1988). ISBN 0-7475-0218-8, available online at http://www.bartleby.com/189/401.htmlhttp://www.bartleby.com/189/401.html Trench, Charles Chenevix. Charley Gordon, An Eminent Victorian Reassessed, London: Allan Lane [1978], 320 pp. ISBN 0-7139-0895-5, Wortham, Hugh Evelyn. Gordon : An Intimate Portrait, London: Harrap (1933), 342 pp. White, Adam. Hamo Thornycroft and the Martyr General, Leeds: The Henry Moore Centre for the Study of Sculpture (1991), 72 pp. Moorehead, Alan. The White Nile, London: Hamish Hamilton, (1960, rev. 1971), 366 pp. Gillmeister, Heiner. "The Maloja Mystery, or the Case of the Living Pictures," in ACD-The Journal of The Arthur Conan Doyle Society, Vol. 7 (1996/7), pp. 53–69. External links[edit] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Charles George Gordon. Original Letters Written by Charles Gordon from the Near East Shapell Manuscript Foundation Chinese Gordon on the Soudan Gordon's famous interview to the Pall Mall Gazette, 1884 Gordon's tactics: an alternative view analysis of Gordon's war strategy by Gary Brecher (the War Nerd) Charles G. Gordon Photograph part of the Nineteenth Century Notables Digital Collection at Gettysburg College