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Strachey, Giles Lytton, 1880-1932

"Eminent Victorians"

Every
one agreed that General Gordon had been avenged at last. Who
could doubt it? General Gordon himself, possibly, fluttering, in
some remote Nirvana, the pages of a phantasmal Bible, might have
ventured on a satirical remark. But General Gordon had always
been a contradictious person--even a little off his head,
perhaps, though a hero; and besides, he was no longer there to
contradict... At any rate, it had all ended very happily--in a
glorious slaughter of 20,000 Arabs, a vast addition to the
British Empire, and a step in the Peerage for Sir Evelyn Baring.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
General Gordon. Reflections in Palestine. Letters. Khartoum
Journals.
E. Hake. The Story of Chinese Gordon.
H. W. Gordon. Events in the Life of C. G. Gordon.
D. C. Boulger. Life of General Gordon.
Sir W. Butler. General Gordon.
Rev. R. H. Barnes and C. E, Brown. Charles George Gordon: A
Sketch.
A. Bioves. Un Grand Aventurier.
Li Hung Chang. Memoirs.*
Colonel Chaille-Long. My Life in Four Continents.
Lord Cromer. Modern Egypt.
Sir R. Wingate. Mahdiism and the Sudan.
Sir R. Slatin. Fire and Sword in the Sudan.
J. Ohrwalder. Ten Years of Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp.
C. Neufeld. A Prisoner of the Khaleefa.
Wilfrid Blunt. A Secret History of the English Occupation of
Egypt.
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Winston Churchill.


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