General Gordon
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Major-General Charles George Gordon, CB (28 january 1833 – 26 january 1885), also known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, Gordon of Khartoum and General Gordon, was a British Army officer and administrator. He saw action in the Crimean War as an officer in the British Army. However, he made his military reputation in China, where he was placed in command of the "Ever Victorious Army", a force of Chinese soldiers led by European officers which was instrumental in putting down the Taiping Rebellion, regularly defeating much larger forces.
In the Sherlock Holmes stories
- Sherlock Holmes remarked that Dr. Watson had his eyes fixed upon his newly-framed picture of General Gordon (CARD 40). And his eyes flashed across to the unframed portrait of Henry Ward Beecher which stands upon the top of his books (CARD 42). So Sherlock Holmes deduced that Dr. Watson were thinking that if the portrait were framed, it would just cover that bare space and correspond with Gordon's picture over there (CARD 44).
