The Life of Gordon, Volume I

The first volume of a biography of General Charles Gordon, the British army officer and administrator known for his work in China and northern Africa. Little is known of his early childhood beyond the fact that he had lived, before he was ten, at Corfu, where his father held a command for some years. The Duke of Cambridge has publicly stated that he recollects, when quartered at Corfu at this period, having seen a bright and intelligent boy who occupied the room next to his own, and who subsequently became General Gordon.