General Gordon's Garden, Khartoum, Sudan mb-code IX001254 Cortes succeeded in overthrowing the

Cortes succeeded in overthrowing the empire of the Aztecs

North west view of Stoke Newington

1780 (1882-1884)

'The Rod Still in Pickle'

with a gypciere hanging from it

General Gordon's Garden, Khartoum, Sudan mb-code IX001254 Cortes succeeded in overthrowing theGeneral 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.