George William Joy - "General Gordon’s Last Stand’ - Major-General Charles George Gordon, CB January 1833 – 26 January also known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British army officer.
Northern Sudan found a leader in Muhammad Achmad, a religious figure known as the Mahdi. He proclaimed a jihad against the Egyptians and British that would return Islam to its original purity. The Mahdi won control of the Sudan.
