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Gordon agreed with Lord Elgin that after the Chinese had killed a group of British and French officers travelling under a white flag to parley that a reprisal was in order, but called the burning of the beautiful Summer Palace "vandal-like" and told his sister in a letter "it made one's heart sore" to incinerate it. During this period Gordon grew close to the Anti-Slavery Society , an evangelical Christian group based in London dedicated to ending slavery all over the world, and who regularly celebrated Gordon's efforts to end slavery in the Sudan. Peter Hammond denied that Gordon was a homosexual, citing the numerous statements made by Gordon condemning homosexuality as an abomination, charging that the claim that Gordon was gay was a theory with no foundations in fact. Despite the popular demand to "avenge Gordon", the Conservative government that came into office after the election did nothing of the sort. In a memo to London, Gordon warned against over-reliance on the Suez Canal, where the Russians could easily sink one ship to block the entire canal, thus leading Gordon to advise upon improving the Cape route to India with Britain developing a series of bases in Africa and in the Indian Ocean. The prince keeps a great state and I was introduced to him with much ceremony.

Retrieved 5 March His subordinate, Gessi Pasha , fought with great success in the Bahr-el-Ghazal district in putting an end to the revolt there. The Shaggyeh one of the few Arab tribes who did not rally to the Mahdi drove Gordon to distraction, with Gordon writing in his diary about them: Retrieved 18 July He first displayed his death wish as he wrote at the time that he had gone "to the Crimea, hoping, without having a hand in it, to be killed". Thomas De La Rue and Co.

Initially, the siege of Khartoum was more in nature a blockade rather than a true siege as the Mahdi's forces lacked the strength to wage a proper siege, for example only cutting the telegraphy lines in April In a memo to London, Gordon warned against over-reliance on the Suez Canal, where the Russians could easily sink one ship to block the entire canal, thus leading Gordon to advise upon improving the Cape route to India with Britain developing a series of bases in Africa and in the Indian Ocean. The Reverend Reginald Barnes, who knew him well, describes him as "of the middle height, very strongly built. Gordon was intensely bored with garrison duty in Chatham and often wrote to the War Office , begging them to send him anywhere in the world where British arms were seeing action. After Baker's release from prison, Isma'il hired him to work in the Sudan. Thomas De La Rue and Co.