"Now mark this, if the Expeditionary Force, and I ask for no more than two hundred men, does not come in ten days, the town may fall; and I have done my best for the honour of our country. Good bye." These are the poignant last words written by Major-General Charles George Gordon in the final entry of his journal kept at the city of Khartoum in the Sudan in January 1885, just prior to the fall of that city. Gordon and at least 10,000 residents...
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