Charles George Gordon, British soldier and administrator Size:XS: 40 x 30cm 12th February 1814

12th February 1814

North polar distance and sweep number

Holy Roman Emperor

The scene is St George's Spa

Plate 4 from the paper 'On the difference of structure between the human Membrana Tympani and that of the elephant'

Charles George Gordon, British soldier and administrator Size:XS: 40 x 30cm 12th February 1814Charles George Gordon, British soldier and administrator, (1893). Known as 'Chinese Gordon' because of his exploits in China in the Second Opium War and the Taiping Rebellion, General Gordon (1833 1885) was killed at Khartoum on 26 January 1885 when the forces of the Mahdi overwhelmed the city. An engraving from James Taylor's The Age We Live In: A History of the Nineteenth Century, From the Peace of 1815 to the Present Time, William Mackenzie,