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Title: The Story of General Gordon

Author: Jeanie Lang

Release Date: March 5, 2008 [EBook #24756]

Language: English

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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF GENERAL GORDON ***

Produced by Al Haines

[Frontispiece: He would lead the troops onwards with the little cane he
nearly always carried.]

THE CHILDREN'S HEROES SERIES

THE STORY OF

GENERAL GORDON

BY

JEANIE LANG

LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK, LTD.,

35 and 36 Paternoster Row, E.C.

AND EDINBURGH

1906

TO

ARCHIE AND BERTIE DICKSON

AND ALL BOYS WHO ARE GOING

TO SERVE THEIR KING

ON LAND OR SEA

PREFACE

DEAR ARCHIE AND BERTIE,

When boys read the old fairy tales, and the stories of King Arthur's
Round Table, and the Knights of the Faerie Queen, they sometimes wonder
sadly why the knights that they see are not like those of the olden
days.

Knights now are often stout old gentlemen who never rode horses or had
lances in their hands, but who made much money in the City, and who
have no more furious monsters near them than their own motor-cars.

Only a very few knights are like what your own grandfather was.

"I wish I had lived long ago," say some of the boys. "Then I might
have killed dragons, and fought for my Queen, and sought for the Holy
Grail. Nobody does those things now. Though I can be a soldier and
fight for the King, that is a quite different thing."

But if the boys think this, it is because they do not quite understand.

Even now there live knights as pure as Sir Galahad, as brave and true
as St. George. They may not be what the world calls "knights"; yet
they are fighting against all that is not good, and true, and honest,
and clean, just as bravely as the knights fought in days of old.

And it is of one of those heroes, who sought all his life to find what
was holy, who fought all his life against evil, and who died serving
his God, his country, and his Queen, that I want to tell you now.

Your friend,

JEANIE LANG.

CONTENTS

Chapter

I. "Charlie Gor