Légende
The last page of General Gordon's journal, 1885. Page of a journal of the siege of Khartoum, kept by Gordon on the back of telegraph forms. 'Arabs fired two shells at the Palace this morning...The steamers are down at Omdurman, engaging the Arabs, consequently I am on tenter hooks! 11:30 A.M. Steamers returned; the "Bordeen" was struck by a shell, in her battery; we had only one man wounded. We are going to send down "Bordeen" to-morrow with this journal. If I was in command of the two hundred men of the Expeditionary Force, which are all that are necessary for the movement, I should stop just below Halfyeh & attack Arabs at that place before I came on here to Kartoum...NOW MARK THIS, if Expeditionary Force, and I ask for no more than two hundred men, does not come in 10 days, the town may fall; and I have done my best for the honour of our country. Goodbye. C. G. Gordon'. Across the bottom of the page Gordon has scribbled: 'You send me no information though you have lots of money!'. In 1884 Gordon single-handedly organised the defence of the Sudanese city of Khartoum, which had only a small garrison of local troops and few supplies, against a siege by rebels which lasted ten months. The town fell and Gordon was killed only two days before the arrival of a relief column.
Date
1885
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM25A16_094
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NA
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NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
49,9Mo (3,4Mo) / 31,0cm x 40,4cm / 3658 x 4772 (300dpi)