General Gordon's Garden, Khartoum, Sudan mb-code IX001254 Plate 19 from The zoological

Plate 19 from The zoological miscellany

1780 (1882-1884)

This turned out not to be Queen Victoria

View of the remains of the palace after fire damaged it in 1814

General Gordon's Garden, Khartoum, Sudan mb-code IX001254 Plate 19 from The zoologicalGeneral Gordon's Garden, Khartoum, Sudan, c1890. Known as 'Chinese Gordon' because of his exploits in China in the Second Opium War and the Taiping Rebellion, Charles George Gordon (1833 1885) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. Appointed Governor General of the Sudan in 1880, he was killed at Khartoum on 26 January 1885 when the forces of the Mahdi overwhelmed the city. Lantern slide.