Download or read book General Gordon Classic Reprint written by S. A. Swaine and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from General Gordon This book, then, is for you, young friends. The story I have to tell I wish to tell after the manner of a story-teller. Throughout I shall speak directly to you, and if you like we will imagine ourselves sitting cosily round the fire on a succession of winter evenings, when lessons and out-door amusements are over for the day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Life of General Gordon Classic Reprint written by Eva Hope and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Life of General Gordon Their father, the late lieutenant-general Gordon, had an ancestry of soldiers. His grandfather - the great-grand father of our hero - had a very eventful life. He was taken prisoner at Prestonpans, but the Duke of Cumberland used his influence to secure his release. He died at4 general gordon. Halifax in North America, in 1752: His son, the grand father of Charles, fought in several battles, and won some distinction. Henry William, the father of General Gordon, was a soldier of the highest type, honourable, kindly, just, and devoted to his profession. Charles was a boy of quick but generous temper, with plenty of energy, but not very great physical strength. He was sent to school at Taunton, in Somerset and afterwards attended the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book General Gordon s Private Diary of His Exploits in China Classic Reprint written by Samuel Mossman and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from General Gordon's Private Diary of His Exploits in China About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book General Gordon s Private Diary of His Exploits in China written by Samuel Mossman and published by Hansebooks. This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Gordon's Private Diary of his Exploits in China is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1885. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Download or read book Letters of General C G Gordon written by Charles George Gordon and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Letters of General C. G Gordon: To His Sister, M. A Gordon In placing this selection from my brother's letters before the public I have been moved by two reasons: one, the often-repeated request of many friends - both known and unknown - to have more "of his own words." For though many - perhaps too many - books have been written about him, little is really understood of his religious life. The fact of his faith and trust in God is indeed known, and many sects have claimed him as belonging to themselves; but he acknowledged none, looking beyond, to the foundation of all, Jesus Christ; and taking for his guide his Bible with the "traditions of man" stripped off. The other reason is the hope that many may derive from the perusal of these letters some of the comfort and help that I have gained from them; for it does not seem right that I should keep to myself what may cheer a fellow-pilgrim on his way. If any hearts are comforted, or if any readers are led to study the Bible from seeing what it was to General Gordon in his life of difficulties and of toil, I shall indeed be well repaid for having "unearthed my jewels" - and precious jewels have they been, and still are, to me. The selection is made from a large number of letters in my possession. Some may think I have included too much, and there may be some things which it would have been better to have omitted; but it is difficult to weigh every word, or to select quite judiciously. No two persons think alike, and what suits one mind might not be acceptable to another. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Gen Charles George Gordon written by A. R. Thain and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Gen. Charles George Gordon: Soldier, Saint and Hero; A Life Sketch The Gordons came of fighting Celtic blood. They were lovers of the claymore, hard-hitting, hard-dying men, whose names disappear in a mist of blood where tradition tells wild tales of hardy prowess. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Events in the Life of Charles George Gordon written by Henry William Gordon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Events in the Life of Charles George Gordon: From Its Beginning to Its End Without meaning to affirm that General Gordon approached to the perfectness Of the great apostle to the Gentiles, yet I discern a strong resemblance in the lives of the two men; while both suffered death, sooner than surrender their faith as Christians.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Letters of General C G Gordon to His Sister M A Gordon written by Charles George Gordon and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters of General C. G. Gordon, to his sister, M. A. Gordon is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Download or read book The Story of Chinese Gordon Vol 2 Classic Reprint written by Alfred Egmont Hake and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Story of Chinese Gordon, Vol. 2 To those who set the laws of copyright at naught in favour of their own advancement he has nothing more to say than this Had they had the courtesy to ask for permission to use his book, he would have been only too willing to grant it, for, in his View, the more the world knows of General Gordon the better for the world The high example set forth in his life has, however, been to them of no avail. One word more. The author was considered more than daring in the Opening pages of the first volume for saying that General Gordon had followed, as nearly as was given to man to follow, the example of Christ. Now even the magnates of the Church vie with each other in working out the parallel. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Charles George Gordon Classic Reprint written by William Francis Butler and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Charles George Gordon Gordon - "Spear," the first weapon shaped by man to aid his fight with nature, and give him dominion over the wild things of plain and forest: the emblem of highest rank among the old Norse gods, held in the right hand of Odin: the weapon of sacrifice among those dim Celtic tribes whose existence is all but lost in the dawn of history - a name that goes back beyond history and beyond even tradition, into days when man began to chip the stones of primaeval river-beds into leaf-shaped sharpened flints: a name full of strange significance in our history, whether borne in Norman, Saxon, or Celtic sound, in simple or compound form by priest, poet, or soldier, by Breakspeare, Shakespeare, Byron, or Gordon, by those whose words and deeds have stirred men's blood as none other in our history have done. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Download or read book General Gordon s Letters From the Crimea the Danube and Armenia written by Charles George Gordon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-28 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from General Gordon's Letters From the Crimea, the Danube, and Armenia: August 18, 1854, to November 17, 1858 Vindicated the reputation of at least English cavalry, and the attempted surprise of the posi tion of Inkerman had resulted in the rout of the Russians. The winter troubles were in full progress. General Gordon himself was one of the arrivals from England destined to convert those troubles into the hopes of the spring, the waning expectations of the summer, and the long anticipated triumph of the early autumn. The Historian has duly recorded and described the progress of events up to the period at which General Gordon's Crimean experiences began; but he has not yet reached that point at which the narrative of events to be found in the following pages really commences. They have, therefore, an intrinsic value apart from that given them by the name of their author. The letters from the Danube and Armenia, which will perhaps be considered the more interesting, are important as giving us from the best possible source the particulars of those two frontier commissions which by the energy of the English Government alone did impose limits for a time to the encroach. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book General Gordon and Lord Dundonald written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from General Gordon and Lord Dundonald: The Story of Two Heroic Lives In childhood, Charles Gordon resided for a time in succession at Dublin, Leith, and the island of Corfu. Young Gordon showed few signs of remarkable promise in boyhood he was not strong, yet always ready for any kind of fun. At the time his father was Director of the Carriage Department in the Royal Arsenal, their home was overrun with mice a number of these were caught by the merry boy and placed in the commandant's house next door. His brother, Sir Henry William Gordon (1818 has related some stories of his boyish fondness for fun: In after-life - that is, in 1879, when in the Soudan Charles Gordon writes to one of his nieces, who was born and lived twenty years in the Royal Arsenal: I am glad to hear the race of true Gordons is not extinct. Do you not regret the arsenal and its delights? You never, any of you, made a proper use of the arsenal workmen as we did. They used to neglect their work for our orders, and turned out some splendid squirts - articles that would wet you through in a moment. As for the crossbows we had made. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Chinese Gordon written by Archibald Forbes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Chinese Gordon: A Succinct Record of His Life The good fortune has never come to me to know General Gordon, and this little volume makes no pretence to be anything more than a compilation and an abridgment. There are two authoritative works on General Gordon's career - Dr. Andrew Wilson's Ever Victorious Army, and Mr. Birkbeck Hill's Colonel Gor don in Central Africa; which last has a special value, consisting as it does for the most part of General Gordon's own letters to rela tives and friends, with admirably written link ing chapters by Mr. Hill. I have acknowledged the quotations made from Mr. Egmont Hake's volume, which are taken only from the few passages of it which are not, as is my own work mainly, a digest of the two original works named above. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Great Taiping Rebellion written by Samuel Mossman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Great Taiping Rebellion: A Story of General Gordon in China About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade Vol 2 written by George Meade and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Vol. 2: Major-General United States Army Number 1. Position, June 28. Night of June 28. Night of June 29. Noon of June 30. Night of June 30. Night of June 27. Night of June 28, No. 2. Night of June 29, No. 2. Night of June 30, N o. 2. 10. P. M., July 1. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade Vol 1 written by George Meade and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Vol. 1: Major-General United States Army Now that the fiftieth anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg is approaching, and the lesson of that great struggle and the far reaching effect of its result are to be brought to every mind, it has become a duty to place before the people this life of General Meade. This work was compiled and written by General Meade's son, Colonel George Meade, and is edited by Colonel Meade's son. The volumes contain two sets of heretofore unpublished letters written by General Meade to his wife during his absence from home, while actively engaged in the Mexican and Civil Wars, and a narrative of General Meade's life during the periods not covered by his own writings, together with an account of the battle of Gettysburg. The letters take the form of a diary, and relate his personal experiences, his views on men and affairs, and describe the operations of the army under Generals Taylor and Scott in the Mexican War, and the Army of the Potomac in the Civil War. Such matters as do not bear in any way upon the purpose of his work have been omitted. These letters are from one who was a loving husband, a professional soldier in the highest sense, and a man who never truckled to the public. They are written to a devoted wife, who had a remarkable understanding in all matters, military and personal, that related to him and to whom alone he wrote with perfect freedom. The narrative opens with his genealogy and early life up to the time of his departure for the Mexican War. Continuing, it takes up his career from the time of his return from the Mexican War until he again leaves for the field in the Civil War, covering his services in the building of light-houses on the Atlantic coast, the Seminole Indian trouble in Florida, and the survey of the Great Lakes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Life of Gordon written by Demetrius C. Boulger and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life of Gordon: Major-General, R. E, C. B.; Turkish Field-Marshal, Grand Cordon Medjidieh, and Pasha; Chinese Titu (Field-Marshal), Yellow Jacket Order AS so many books Of a more or less biographical nature have been written about General Charles Gordon, it is both appropriate and natural that I should preface the following pages with a statement of a personal character as to how and why I have written another. In the year 1881 I told General Gordon that I contemplated describing his career as soon as I had finished writing my History of China. His laughing reply was: You know I shall never read it, but you can have all my papers now in the possession Of my brother, Sir Henry Gordon. My history took a very long time to write, and the third volume was not published until April 1884, when General Gordon was hemmed in, to use his own words, at Khartoum. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.