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Gordon, Charles George, 1833-1885

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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.
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    • Archives and manuscripts

    Letters to William Scott (1859-1897)

    Gordon, Charles George, 1833-1885. | Date: 1881-1882 | Reference: MS.6899
    Part of: Gordon, Charles George (1833-1885), Major-General
    • Archives and manuscripts

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

    Gordon, Charles George, 1833-1885 | Date: 1856-1884 | Reference: MSS.6894-6901
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