General Gordon's Garden, Khartoum, Sudan mb-code IX001254 North west view of Stoke

North west view of Stoke Newington

This turned out not to be Queen Victoria

Plate 19 from The zoological miscellany

'The Rod Still in Pickle'

1780 (1882-1884)

General Gordon's Garden, Khartoum, Sudan mb-code IX001254 North west view of StokeGeneral Gordon's Garden, Khartoum, Sudan, c1890. Known as 'Chinese Gordon' because of his exploits in China in the Second Opium War and the Taiping Rebellion, Charles George Gordon (1833 1885) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. Appointed Governor General of the Sudan in 1880, he was killed at Khartoum on 26 January 1885 when the forces of the Mahdi overwhelmed the city. Lantern slide.