The Journals of Major-Gen C. G. Gordon, C. B., at Kartoum, Gordon, Charles George. Published by Kegan Paul, London, 1885. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½” tall., lxv., 587pp. with frontis portrait, 2 maps one of which is folding, 30 illustrations; introduction and notes by A. Egmont Hake. Red cloth boards with gilt titles. Ghost mark to title of frontis; hinges weakened. Split to spine closed to joint; light wear to board edges. In good condition.
Major-General Charles George Gordon CB was an officer of the British Army during the Crimean War and Second Opium War, and served as Governor General of the Sudan 1873–1880. He died in the Siege of Khartoum during the Mahdist War. “Now mark this, if the Expeditionary Force, and I ask for no more than two hundred men, does not come in ten days, the town may fall; and I have done my best for the honour of our country. Good bye.” These are the poignant last words written by Major-General Charles George Gordon in the final entry of his journal kept at the city of Khartoum in the Sudan in January 1885, just prior to the fall of that city. Gordon and at least 10,000 residents of the city were slaughtered in the butchery which followed.
