General Gordon: The Ultimate Victorian Hero (TRIH ep 141)
1863 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss the life and contested reputation of General Charles George Gordon up to his famed role in China. They trace Gordon’s early military career — Crimea, surveying on the Danube, service in Armenia — and focus on his emergence as “Chinese Gordon” commanding the Ever Victorious Army during the Taiping Rebellion.
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Around 1863
- Crimean War (1853)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- German unification (1871)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)