Charles George Gordon

Charles George Gordon, C.B. (January 28, 1833 - January 26, 1885), known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British army officer and administrator. He is remembered for his exploits in China and northern Africa.

Remembered as a hero

The manner of his death is uncertain but it was romanticised 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 the British General.

Related Topics:
George William Joy - 1966 - Charlton Heston

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

General Gordon has also had a school dedicated to his memory situated in West End, Surrey. Gordon was supposedly Queen Victoria's favourite general, hence the fact that the school was commissioned by Queen Victoria.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

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. In the town centre of his birthplace of Woolwich is General Gordon Square.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~