General Gordon and the Siege of Khartoum (TRIH ep 142)
1884 · Resource
This episode (part two of a special) examines the career and legacy of General Charles Gordon (Gordon of Khartoum). Holland and Sandbrook trace Gordon's evangelical anti-slavery mission in Equatoria and the wider Sudan, his brief, unhappy spell as private secretary in India, and the approaches from Leopold II over the Congo. They discuss W.T. Stead's publicity that helped send Gordon to Sudan, the complex British political context under Gladstone, and divisions over intervention. The hosts na...
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Around 1884
- Adolf Hitler (1889)
- Albert Einstein (1879)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Van Gogh's The Starry Night (1889)
- Mao Zedong (1893)
- Winston Churchill (1874)
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881)
- Pablo Picasso (1881)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882)
- Edison's incandescent light bulb (1879)