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Title: General Gordon
A Christian Hero

Author: Seton Churchill

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GENERAL GORDON

[Illustration: C. G. 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 of_
F. 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.

13th Edition
(_Completing 41,000 Copies_)

London
James Nisbet & Co., Limited
21 Berners Street

1907

Printed by Ballantyne, 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

I. INTRODUCTION 1

II. EARLY LIFE AND CRIMEAN WAR 12

III. CHINESE WAR AND TAIPING REBELLION 25

IV. GORDON'S FIRST COMMAND 36

V. PROGRESS OF THE REBELLION 50

VI. END OF THE REBELLION 65

VII. AT GRAVESEND 80

VIII. GORDON'S SIMPLE FAITH 92

IX. HIS CATHOLICITY 114

X. GOVERNOR OF THE EQUATORIAL PROVINCE 135

XI. GOVERNOR-GE