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    Major-General Charles George Gordon CB (28 January 1833 – 26 January 1885), also known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British...
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    George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was a British poet and peer. He is one of the major figures of the Romantic...
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    instead appointing Charles George Gordon as Governor-General of Sudan, with orders to evacuate Khartoum and the other garrisons. Gordon arrived in Khartoum...
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  • Charles Gordon (Royal Navy officer) (c. 1780–1860) Charles Gordon, 10th Marquess of Huntly (1792–1863), Scottish peer and politician Charles George Gordon...
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    Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond, KG, PC (né Lennox; 3 August 1791 – 21 October 1860), styled the Earl of March from 1806 until 1819, was a...
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    Lord Henry George Charles Gordon-Lennox PC (né Lennox; 2 November 1821 – 29 August 1886), known as Lord Henry Lennox, was a British Conservative politician...
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    title in the Peerage of Scotland that was created on 17 April 1599 for George Gordon, 6th Earl of Huntly. It is the oldest existing marquessate in Scotland...
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  • Pasha Abaza Fuad Pasha Glubb Pasha (Sir John Bagot Glubb) Gordon Pasha (Charles George Gordon) Guyon Pasha, (General Richard Guyon), also known as Kurshid...
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    honour of the Major-General Charles George Gordon, a British army officer who was killed in 1885, in Khartoum. The given name Gordon originates from a transferred...
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    Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 11th Duke of Richmond, 11th Duke of Lennox, 11th Duke of Aubigny, 6th Duke of Gordon, CBE, DL (born 8 January 1955), styled...
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    A bronze statue of General Charles George Gordon by Hamo Thornycroft stands on a stone plinth in the Victoria Embankment Gardens in London. It has been...
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    issued by governor-general of the Sudan, British Major-General Charles George Gordon during the Siege of Khartoum. Denominated in piastre (and a £E50...
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    having a huge church built on it. — Charles George Gordon, Letters of General C. G. Gordon to his Sister M. A. Gordon(London: Macmillan 1888), pp. 289–290...
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    In 1882–83, Major-General Charles George Gordon endorsed this view; subsequently the site has sometimes been known as Gordon's Calvary. The location, usually...
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  • by Basil Dearden. It stars Charlton Heston as British General Charles "Chinese" Gordon and Laurence Olivier as Muhammad Ahmed (a Sudanese leader whose...
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    George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, KG, KT, PC, FRS, FRSE, FSA Scot (28 January 1784 – 14 December 1860), styled Lord Haddo from 1791 to 1801...
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    joint effort titled "The Gordon Relief Expedition", was to march across the Bayuda Desert to the aid of General Charles George Gordon at Khartoum, Sudan, who...
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  • actor Cecil Gordon (1941–2012), American NASCAR driver Charles George Gordon (1833–1885), British general known as "Chinese Gordon" and "Gordon of Khartoum"...
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    George Gordon Meade (December 31, 1815 – November 6, 1872) was a United States Army Major General who commanded the Army of the Potomac during the American...
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    England as a Protestant, and later created Viscount Aboyne by Charles I. George, Lord Gordon was brought to royal court in Edinburgh February 1596 and in...
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    coco de mer and vanilla orchids. It has been reported that General Charles George Gordon of Khartoum (1833–1885), an ardent Christian cosmologist, was convinced...
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    George Gordon Battle Liddy (November 30, 1930 – March 30, 2021) was an American lawyer, FBI agent, and a criminal who was convicted of conspiracy, burglary...
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    Lord George Gordon (26 December 1751 – 1 November 1793) was a British politician best known for lending his name to the Gordon Riots of 1780. An eccentric...
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    Army passed, after a short period of time, to Charles George Gordon, known as "Chinese" Gordon. Under Gordon the Ever Victorious Army, in collaboration with...
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    of Huntly Alexander Gordon, 2nd Duke of Gordon (c. 1678–1728), only son of the 1st Duke Cosmo George Gordon, 3rd Duke of Gordon (c. 1720–1752), eldest...
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    isolated outposts. Equatoria was established by Samuel Baker in 1870. Charles George Gordon took over as governor in 1874, followed by Emin Pasha in 1878. The...
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    of the factors behind the legend. In the Victorian era, General Charles George Gordon, who visited the Seychelles in 1881, believed that the Vallée de...
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    called the Gordon Relief Expedition (1884–1885), was a British mission to relieve Major-General Charles George Gordon at Khartoum, Sudan. Gordon had been...
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    Kitchener's wide-ranging educational reforms. Named for General Charles George Gordon of the British army, who was killed during the Mahdi uprising in...
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  • of Egypt and King of the Kush Kingdom 690 - 664 BC (1961) Charles George Gordon, a.k.a. Gordon of Khartoum, British army officer and administrator (1935)...
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