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To: BigReb555

For a moment I thought this would be about “Chinese” Gordon of Khartoum.

Still a good read!


3 posted on 02/05/2013 5:03:38 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Click my name! See new paintings!)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I thought the same thing.

I was reading about Viscount Garnet Wolseley and his rescue expedition. If I remember right he got there just a day late. Gordon had already been executed by the Muslims.


4 posted on 02/05/2013 5:13:00 PM PST by yarddog (One shot one miss.)
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