Apr 16
Siege of Khartoum: Last Stand of General Gordon
General Gordon believed that if he could hold Khartoum for long enough against the Mahdi's siege, the British government would be obliged sooner or later, under the force of public opinion and despite Prime Minister Gladstone’s reluctance, to send an imperial relief force. As the historian Lawrence James notes: “All his life Gordon had been a fighter looking for moral battlefields and Khartoum was one” (85). Gordon’s return had been welcomed by most of the capital’s residents precisely because they envisaged that such an important figure would surely soon be sent an imperial army to deal with the Mahdists once and for all.
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