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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.

Gordon, Charles George, 1833-1885 --- Authors --- Biography & Autobiography --- Literary Collections

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Colonisation --- Impérialisme --- Découvertes --- Savorgnan de Brazza, Pierre, 1852-1925 --- Marchand, Jean-Baptiste, 1863-1934 --- Gordon, Charles George, 1833-1885 --- Stanley, Henry Morton, 1841-1904 --- Lyautey, Louis Hubert Gonzalve, 1854-1934 --- Afrique