Gordon of Khartoum - The Great Imperial Adventurer Documentary 

Huge fan guys! Please do papá doc

Huge fan guys! Please do papá doc

Huge fan guys! Please do papá doc

Huge fan guys! Please do papá doc

How about possibly doing a video of the missionary Mary Slessor, a fellow Scot of Gordon?

Khartoum. Wow, I can only imagine what that was like.

Yet the US fought the British for independence.

I went to Gordons School and was in Khartoum house

You Imperialist schwein !! !!

Fun fact. Sherlock Holmes is also a fan of Gordon and has his portrait in 221B Baker street apartment, in Conan Doyle's books.

Spot on Sir I take pride in my military knowledge, but never thought of that 👍👍👍

Napoleon was the eminent grise of the 19th century.

@@SynapseDriven - as a gay man myself, I tend to agree with you on that. And to me that makes him even more human and relatable. I lived in Khartoum for the greater part of 1993 when I was in my early 20s, and I first learned about him during that time, and have held him in high regard ever since. I suspect he may have been gay, and he probably denied himself the kind of personal life that most people (now) take for granted. But he lived with purpose and accomplished great things in his life. It is especially interesting how he went up against the Mahdi, and they had this very interesting correspondence where each of them tried to convert the other to their respective religion! While each of them regarded the other as an "infidel" they each respected the other in their own convictions. It's a conversation you can't even imagine taking place now.

​@@markthompson180As he lead the ultra disciplined life of Professional Officer Soldier,Engineer and Diplomat ( which kept him slightly busy,travelling around the World) why couldn't he be described as a Repressed Heterosexual?

@@jerryoshea3116 - because, for one, plenty of men in the military and in the diplomatic corps have had heterosexual relationships - society encourages it. It's seen as "normal." But if you are not exactly straight, especially in that time, it was not acceptable to be in a same-sex relationship, but the signs are there if you know what you are looking at.

I can sit in my chair all day and talk about how colonialism and imperialism are not good things to for strive for, but I’m aware that I would never be capable of this guy’s fortitude and discipline

@@Ghost_of_Corydon He was Impressive to say the least!

I saw the movie at the movies in Dodoma Tanzania when I was about 5 years old - my favourite ever since

I've been there. Lived in Khartoum as a kid

Wasn't Gordon a Scotsman??

that's an interesting perspective. Given how he was beheaded and his body cast down a well the assumption might be he was a figure hated by muslims

There's good classic movie called "Khartoum" starring Charlton Heston as Gordon. In the Sherlock Holmes novels and movies, Holmes has a portrait of General Gordon in his flat in Baker street.

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The Courage Of Achilles

The correct spelling is K-H-A-R-T-O-U-M.

Pretty good.

La Petite

Not a big fan of gin.

I can definitely see them starting with Hung Dao Vuong Tran Quoc Tuan, much more appeal to Western audience due to shared history of fighting the Mongols

Second that. Vietnam is only known in the West for the Vietnam War despite having a rich history. Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Bhutan are some other neglected countries in our historiography.

We will, promise.

@@PeopleProfiles Thank you very much, sir ❣️

@@georgepatton93 Yes, agreed with you! I hope to see too 🌹

Papua New Guineans whom led allied troops across the Owen Stanley ranges in New Guinea in WWII (known as the Kokoda Track) are still known as the Fuzzy Wuzzie angels

Especially since the real Madhi died several months after Gordon perished.

Seems historians always have to say oh a man didn’t marry or was labeled as odd during his life must be gay.

This is also how I feel about him.

So your going to judge a man not based on his life but from one action? Nothing he did matters to you?

@@divebombexpert2619 In the end he was a bad leader.

If your talking about the Taiping they were not Christians. They were heretics.

Ah yes the Bad mimilitary Choices.

So?

True. The sun has set on the British empire

Yes the evil colonizer that fought against slavery.