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Title: The Life of Gordon, Volume I

Author: Demetrius Charles Boulger

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Language: English

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THE LIFE OF GORDON

MAJOR-GENERAL, R.E., C.B.; TURKISH FIELD-MARSHAL, GRAND
CORDON MEDJIDIEH, AND PASHA; CHINESE TITU (FIELD-MARSHAL),
YELLOW JACKET ORDER.

"_'Tis a name which ne'er hath been dishonour'd,
And never will, I trust--most surely never
By such a youth as thou._"

--SWINTON ON ADAM GORDON.

by

DEMETRIUS C. BOULGER

Author of "The History of China;" "England and Russia in Central
Asia;" "Lord William Bentinck," Etc., Etc.

With Portrait

VOLUME I

London
T. Fisher Unwin
Paternoster Square
MDCCCXCVI
[All rights reserved.]

[Illustration: GENERAL GORDON
A PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN SHORTLY AFTER THE CRIMEA AND LENT BY HIS NIECE,
MISS DUNLOP.]

PREFACE.

As so many books of a more or less biographical nature have been
written about General Charles Gordon, it is both appropriate and
natural that I should preface the following pages with a statement of
a personal character as to how and why I have written another.

In the year 1881 I told General Gordon that I contemplated describing
his career as soon as I