Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Charles_George_Gordon> ?p ?o }
- Charles_George_Gordon abstract "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 Army officer and administrator.He saw action in the Crimean War as an officer in the British Army. But he made his military reputation in China, where he was placed in command of the \"Ever Victorious Army,\" a force of Chinese soldiers led by European officers. In the early 1860s, Gordon and his men were instrumental in putting down the Taiping Rebellion, regularly defeating much larger forces. For these accomplishments, he was given the nickname \"Chinese\" Gordon and honours from both the Emperor of China and the British.He entered the service of the Khedive in 1873 (with British government approval) and later became the Governor-General of the Sudan, where he did much to suppress revolts and the slave trade. Exhausted, he resigned and returned to Europe in 1880.A serious revolt then broke out in the Sudan, led by a Muslim religious leader and self-proclaimed Mahdi, Muhammad Ahmad. Gordon had been sent to Khartoum with instructions to secure the evacuation of loyal soldiers and civilians and to depart with them. However, after evacuating about 2,500 British civilians, in defiance of those instructions, he retained a smaller group of soldiers and non-military men. In the buildup to battle, the two leaders corresponded, each attempting to convert the other to his faith, but neither would accede. Besieged by the Mahdi's forces, Gordon organized a city-wide defence lasting almost a year that gained him the admiration of the British public, but not of the government, which had wished him not to become entrenched. Only when public pressure to act had become irresistible did the government, with reluctance, send a relief force. It arrived two days after the city had fallen and Gordon had been killed.".
- Charles_George_Gordon award Crimea_Medal.
- Charles_George_Gordon award Legion_of_Honour.
- Charles_George_Gordon award Order_of_Osmanieh.
- Charles_George_Gordon award Order_of_the_Bath.
- Charles_George_Gordon award Order_of_the_Double_Dragon.
- Charles_George_Gordon award Order_of_the_Medjidie.
- Charles_George_Gordon award Second_China_War_Medal.
- Charles_George_Gordon award Turkish_Crimea_Medal.
- Charles_George_Gordon battle Battle_of_Changzhou.
- Charles_George_Gordon battle Battle_of_Cixi.
- Charles_George_Gordon battle Battle_of_Kinburn_(1855).
- Charles_George_Gordon battle Crimean_War.
- Charles_George_Gordon battle Mahdist_War.
- Charles_George_Gordon battle Second_Opium_War.
- Charles_George_Gordon battle Siege_of_Khartoum.
- Charles_George_Gordon battle Siege_of_Sevastopol_(1854–55).
- Charles_George_Gordon battle Taiping_Rebellion.
- Charles_George_Gordon militaryBranch Egyptian_Army.
- Charles_George_Gordon militaryCommand "Governor-General of the Sudan".
- Charles_George_Gordon serviceEndYear "1885".
- Charles_George_Gordon serviceStartYear "1852".
- Charles_George_Gordon thumbnail Charles_George_Gordon_by_Freres.jpg?width=300.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageExternalLink books?id=IerYAAAAMAAJ.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageExternalLink manuscript.aspx?cavalry-crucifixion-sites-identified.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageExternalLink PPP1,M1.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageExternalLink p126301coll1,135.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageExternalLink war_nerd.html.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageExternalLink interview.php.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageExternalLink 401.html.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageExternalLink PP.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageExternalLink aprisonerkhalee00neufgoog.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageExternalLink charlesgeorgegor00barn.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageExternalLink 2up.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageExternalLink 49224.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageID "210968".
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageLength "124228".
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageOutDegree "338".
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageRevisionID "708216673".
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Abdallahi_ibn_Muhammad.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Aberdeen.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Adam_Lindsay_Gordon.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Al-Zubayr_Rahma_Mansur.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Alan_Moorehead.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink American_Civil_War.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Anatolia.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Anglo-Egyptian_Sudan.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Ansar_(Sudan).
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Anthony_Nutting.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Armidale,_New_South_Wales.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Asian_people.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Australia.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Bahr_el_Ghazal.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Balaklava.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Bashi-bazouk.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Basutoland.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Changzhou.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Cixi.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_El_Obeid.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Kinburn_(1855).
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Omdurman.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Beijing.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Bernard_Montgomery.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Bessarabia.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Bomber.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Brevet_(military).
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink British_Army.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink British_Columbia.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Brussels.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Cairo.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Calvary.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Cape_Colony.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Category:1833_births.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Category:1885_deaths.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Category:British_Army_personnel_of_the_Crimean_War.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Category:British_Army_personnel_of_the_Second_Opium_War.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Category:British_expatriates_in_China.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Category:British_military_personnel_killed_in_the_Mahdist_War.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Category:British_people_of_the_Mahdist_War.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Category:Companions_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Category:Deaths_by_decapitation.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Category:Egyptian_colonels.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Category:English_evangelicals.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Category:English_people_of_Scottish_descent.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Category:House_of_Gordon.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Category:Pashas.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Category:People_from_Woolwich.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Category:People_of_the_Taiping_Rebellion.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Category:Qing_dynasty_titus.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Category:Royal_Engineers_officers.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Century_of_humiliation.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Changshu.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Changzhou.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Charles_Chaillé-Long.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Charles_Staveley.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Charlton_Heston.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Chatham,_Kent.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Church_Mission_Society.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Church_of_the_Holy_Sepulchre.
- Charles_George_Gordon wikiPageWikiLink Colonel.