England's Pride: The Story of the Gordon Relief Expedition by Julian Symons

England's Pride: The Story of the Gordon Relief Expedition

Julian Symons

306 pages first pub 1965 (view editions)

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General Gordon, charged with the task of defending Khartoum, was stabbed to death on 26 January 1885 when the Mahdi's forces took the town by storm. Two days later, the Expeditionary force arrived to relieve Gordon but found the town firmly in the...

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