Gordon, Charles

GEORGE, an English general, born 1833. After leaving Woolwich Academy, he entered the army as lieutenant of Engineers, served in the Crime an War (1854), and in 1856 was sent as a istant Commi ioner to Ba arabia, to settle the disputed boundary between Ru ia and Turkey. In 1860 he went to China and took a prominent part in the Tai-Ping rebellion, gaining there his sobriquet of "Chinese Gordon." He succeeded in subduing the rebels, was made a Man darin in 1863, and left China overwhelmed with testimonials and honors. From 1865 to 1871 he remained at Grave send with the Engineer Corps. In 1873 he entered the service of the Khedive of Egypt. In 1876 he was made governor of the Soudan, resigning and returning to England in 1879. In 1884 he was sent by England to the Soudan to propitiate the revolting Arabs, and was killed at the taking of Khartoum, Jan. 27, 1885, being overcome by treachery after a determined resistance.