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Sudan: fighting, medical and social activity. Wood engraving and process print by J.F.W. after M. Prior and W.S. Perry.

General Gordon standing on the stairs of his house about to be speared by dervishes. Etching by H. Dicksee after G. W. Joy.

General Gordon. Photographic postcard by Chalkley Gould & Co., 190-.

A policeman (Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville) restrains another policeman (Gladstone) from interfering in a fight between the Mahdi and General Gordon next to Cleopatra's Needle on the River Thames. Colour lithograph by T. Merry, 1884.

Men on rowing boats heading towards Khartoum, Sudan; representing the relief of General Gordon's expedition. Colour lithograph by Gilbert & Rivington after Tom Merry, 6 September 1884.

The Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum, Sudan: laying of the foudation stone. Process print after a wood engraving.

The age we live in : a history of the nineteenth century, from the peace of 1815 to the present time / James Taylor.

Great deaths : grieving, religion, and nationhood in Victorian and Edwardian Britain / John Wolffe.

Eminent Victorians : Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold, General Gordon / by Lytton Strachey.

Letters to William Scott (1859-1897)

Gordon, Charles George (1833-1885), Major-General

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Charles George Gordon

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Images about Charles George Gordon

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Letters to William Scott (1859-1897)

Gordon, Charles George (1833-1885), Major-General

Charles George Gordon

Images from the collections

Images about Charles George Gordon

Works from the collections

Letters to William Scott (1859-1897)

Gordon, Charles George (1833-1885), Major-General

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