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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
May 2012
Print publication year:
2012
First published in:
1884
Online ISBN:
9781139176941
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139176941
Subjects:
Social and Population History, Area Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, Russian and East European History
Series:
Cambridge Library Collection - European History
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Book description

This volume of letters was published in 1884, when General Gordon (1833–85) was engaged in the controversial defence of Khartoum that claimed his life the following year. The reputation of 'Chinese' Gordon, a complex figure, unpopular with the British government and military but adored by the people and press, was fed by works such as this. Covering his time in the Crimea as a young lieutenant, and later in the drawing up of the new frontiers between the Russian and Ottoman empires, these letters were published by his later biographer, Demetrius C. Boulger (1853–1928) as evidence of Gordon's strength of character and value as a military leader. One reviewer noted in them an 'indomitable cheerfulness of disposition, patient endurance, trustful fatalism, simple courage and faith, … [and] single-hearted devotion to duty', words which reflected the popular view of Gordon as a symbol of British national pride and imperial honour.

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