Gladstone, Gordon and the Sudan Wars: The Battle over Imperial Intervention in the Victorian Age
Pen & Sword | 2013 | 212 pages | ISBN: 1781591822 | ePub (e-book) | 6.5 MB
General Gordon's death in Khartoum on 26 January 1885 – and the fall of the besieged city to the forces of the Mahdi – was a crucial episode in British imperial history. It was deeply controversial at the time, and it still is today. Gordon has routinely been depicted as the hero of the story, in contrast to Prime Minister Gladstone who is often portrayed as the villain of the piece, responsible for a 'policy of drift' in Sudan.