If James Hope Grant was one of the main culprits of the Burning of the Yuanming Garden,
then Charles George Gordon was undoubtedly a bona fide bandit.
Charles George Gordon.
Sometimes, because of translation, he's called Charlie George Gordon.
He was born on January 28, 1833. His father was a lieutenant general in the United Kingdom Army. He graduated from the famed Taunton School and the Royal Military College.
After graduation, Gordon became a crossbowman in the Engineer Corps in 1850.
According to the course of history,
he would take part in the famous Crimean War in 1855, and later, as a major, be stationed in Huaxia during the Second Opium War.
He missed the attack on Dagu Fort, but participated in the occupation of Beijing and the Yiheyuan, looting an enormous amount of precious cultural relics.
But the reason Charles George Gordon is truly known to later generations is that he once led an infamously ruffian army:
The Invincible Army, also known as the…
