Charles George Gordon

Mayor-Jenderal ** Charles George Gordon**, CB (28 Januari 1833&nbsp;– 26 Januari 1885), juga dikenal sebagai **Chinese Gordon**, **Gordon Pasha**, dan **Gordon dari Khartoum**, adalah seorang perwira angkatan darat dan administrator Britania.

Ia beraksi dalam Perang Krimea sebagai seorang perwira dalam Angkatan Darat Britania. Untuk pelayanan ini, ia dilantik menjadi Chevalier Legiun Kehormatan oleh Pemerintahn Prancis pada 16 Juli 1856. Namun, ia membuat reputasi militernya di China, di mana ia ditempatkan dalam komando "Ever Victorious Army," sebuah pasukan prajurit Tiongkok yang dipimpin oleh perwira Eropa.

## Kehidupan awal
Gordon lahir di Woolwich, London, sebagai putra dari Mayor-Jenderal Henry William Gordon (1786–1865) dan Elizabeth (Enderby) Gordon (1792–1873). Ia dididik di Sekolah Fullands di Taunton, Somerset, Sekolah Taunton, dan Akademi Militer Kerajaan, Woolwich. Ia diangkat pada 1852 sebagai letnan kedua dalam Teknisi Kerajaan, menyelesaikan pelatihannya di Chatham. Ia diangkat menjadi letnan penuh pada 1854.

## Lihat pula

* Pertempuran Omdurman

## Catatan

## Referensi

* Allen, Bernard M. "How Khartoum Fell," *Journal of the Royal African Society*, Vol. 40, No. 161 (Oct., 1941), pp.&nbsp;327–334.
* Asher, Michael. *Khartoum—The Ultimate Imperial Adventure*, (2005), 450 pp.
* Barnes, Reginald. *Charles George Gordon—A Sketch*, London: Macmillan & Co. (1885), 104 pp., available online
* Beresford, John. *Storm and Peace*, London: Cobden-Sanderson [1936] (1977), 269 pp.
* Charles George Gordon. *Reflections in Palestine*. London: Macmillan & Co. (1884). http://books.google.ca/books?id=NRP-A6VDD-4C&dq=Reflections+in+Palestine&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=i2QsxZEm9M&sig=BVIDsv1HJpl0KL6kd1_V3gsRzBA&hl=en&ei=6MM3SsmEO5fFmQfs8ZiZDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#PPP1,M1
* Churchill, Winston, Sir. *The River War*, New York: Carroll & Graf [1899]; Partridge Green: Biblios (2000), ISBN 0-7867-0751-8
* Faught, C. Brad. *Gordon: Victorian Hero*, Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books (2008), ISBN 978-1-59797-144-7
* Hill, George Birkbeck, ed. *Colonel Gordon in Central Africa, 1874-1879]* London: Thomas De La Rue and Co.(1881). http://books.google.com/books?id=IerYAAAAMAAJ
* Latimer, E.W. "Gordon and the Mahdi," in *Europe in Africa in the Nineteenth Century*, 4th Ed. A.C. McClurg, Chicago (1895, 1903).
* MacGregor-Hastie, Roy. *Never to be Taken Alive—A Biography of General Gordon*, (1985) ISBN 0-283-99184-4
* Neufeld, Charles. *A Prisoner of the Khaleefa]*, London: Chapman & Hall (1899). https://archive.org/details/aprisonerkhalee00neufgoog
* Platt, Stephen R. *Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War*, Knopf (2012), ISBN 978-0-307-95759-7
* Pollock, John. *Gordon: the Man Behind the Legend*, London: Constable (1993), ISBN 0-09-468560-6
* Smith, George Barnett. *General Gordon The Christian Soldier and Hero*, London: S.W. Partridge & Co. (1896), 160 pp.
* Strachey, G. Lytton. *Eminent Victorians*, Illustrated Ed., London: Bloomsbury [1918] (1988). ISBN 0-7475-0218-8, available online at http://www.bartleby.com/189/401.html
* Trench, Charles Chenevix. *Charley Gordon, An Eminent Victorian Reassessed*, London: Allan Lane [1978], 320 pp. ISBN 0-7139-0895-5,
* Wortham, Hugh Evelyn. *Gordon: An Intimate Portrait*, London: Harrap (1933), 342 pp.
* White, Adam. *Hamo Thornycroft & the Martyr General*, Leeds: The Henry Moore Centre for the Study of Sculpture (1991), 72 pp.
* Moorehead, Alan. *The White Nile*, London: Hamish Hamilton, (1960, rev. 1971), 366 pp.
* Gillmeister, Heiner. "The Maloja Mystery, or the Case of the Living Pictures," in *ACD-The Journal of The Arthur Conan Doyle Society*, Vol. 7 (1996/7), pp.&nbsp;53–69.

## Pranala luar

* Original Letters Written by Charles Gordon from the Near East Shapell Manuscript Foundation
* Chinese Gordon on the Soudan Gordon's famous interview to the Pall Mall Gazette, 1884
* Gordon's tactics: an alternative view  analysis of Gordon's war strategy by Gary Brecher (the War Nerd)
* Charles G. Gordon Photograph part of the Nineteenth Century Notables Digital Collection at Gettysburg College