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SUDAN: Anglo-Egyptian Condominium, white metal medal (30.34g), 1885, VF-XF

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SUDAN: Anglo-Egyptian Condominium, white metal medal (30.34g), 1885, VF-XF
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450.00USD+ buyer's premium (90.00)
This item SOLD at 2025 May 16 @ 15:24UTC-07:00 : PDT/MST
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SUDAN: Anglo-Egyptian Condominium, white metal medal (30.34g), 1885, W.O. Lewis, Birmingham, bust of C.G. Gordon, the latest Christian martyr // within wreath "sent by the Gladstone government to the Soudan with one companion, Jan'y 1884 in March he asked for 200 British troops but was deliberately abandoned to his fate until too late", VF-XF, S. Charles George Gordon (1833-1885), also known as Chinese Gordon and Gordon Pasha, was a British Army officer and administrator remembered for his exploits in China and Egypt. He was the commander of the Egyptian forces in Khartoum when the city was besieged by the forces of al-Mahdi on March 18, 1884. The siege lasted ten months until the city fell on January 26, 1885. Gordon was killed along with the entire defense force and several thousand civilians. When news broke of Gordon's death, the British public lionized him as a martyr and a hero and decried the government's belated relief effort, which only arrived two days after the city had been captured.