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GENERAL GORDON

Painting of General Gordon
P.S. I am quite happy, thank God, & like Lawrence, I have "tried to do my duty."

Copied from the Original Engraving by permission ofF. C. McQueen & Sons,
sole Proprietors of the Copyright.



GENERAL GORDON

A CHRISTIAN HERO



By

LIEUT.-COLONEL SETON CHURCHILL

AUTHOR OF "STEPPING-STONES TO HIGHER THINGS," ETC.



13thEDITION
(Completing 41,000 Copies)

 

 

London
JAMES NISBET & CO., LIMITED
21 BERNERS STREET

1907

Printed byBallantyne, Hanson & Co.
At the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh


DEDICATED

TO THE

YOUNG MEN OF ENGLAND

WITH THE EARNEST DESIRE THAT SOME OF THE NOBLE
GODLIKE CHARACTERISTICS OF THIS

CHRISTIAN SOLDIER AND HERO

MAY BE REPRODUCED IN FUTURE GENERATIONS


CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE
IINTRODUCTION1
IIEARLY LIFE AND CRIMEAN WAR12
IIICHINESE WAR AND TAIPING REBELLION25
IVGORDON'S FIRST COMMAND36
VPROGRESS OF THE REBELLION50
VIEND OF THE REBELLION65
VIIAT GRAVESEND80
VIIIGORDON'S SIMPLE FAITH92
IXHIS CATHOLICITY114
XGOVERNOR OF THE EQUATORIAL PROVINCE135
XIGOVERNOR-GENERAL OF THE SOUDAN157
XII...

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