When he made it to his native Mar del Plata, on June 17, he was surprised by the hero’s welcome he received. “Entering my port where my father had his sailboat, where he taught me so many things and where I learned how to sail, gave me the taste of a mission accomplished,” he...
Charles George Gordon(born Jan. 28, 1833,Woolwich, nearLondon, Eng.—died Jan. 26, 1885, Khartoum, Sudan) was a British general who became a national hero for hisexploitsinChinaand his ill-fated defense ofKhartoumagainst theMahdists. ...