Gordon (戈登) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Gordon as a general, military officer, and strategist. This record brings together 12 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Gordon	戈登	Ge Deng
Personal	Gordon	戈登	Gē Dēng
Personal name	Gordon	戈登
Native language	Gordon

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:435:s0064
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:467:s0002

Roles

General
Military Officer
Strategist

Life and dates

Death

Manner: killed while commanding in Egypt / 埃及亂，督師討之，遇害 · Place: Egypt / 埃及
Explicit · qingshigao:435:s0092

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 同治二年 · Western Year: AD 1863
Explicit · qingshigao:435:s0065
Source Date: Text: 同治初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1863 · End: AD 1864
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:467:s0105

Origins and identity

Label: British / 英國人
Explicit · qingshigao:435:s0064

Career and standing

Label: Western officer / 西將
Explicit · qingshigao:467:s0105
Label: acting major general of Jiangsu / 權授江蘇總兵 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:435:s0068
Label: provincial commander rank dress / 提督品級章服 · Action: awarded
Explicit · qingshigao:435:s0088
Label: yellow jacket and peacock feather / 黃馬褂、花翎 · Action: awarded
Explicit · qingshigao:435:s0088

Places and affiliations

Label: Britain / 英國 · Relation: origin
Explicit · qingshigao:435:s0064
Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:435:s0065, qingshigao:435:s0068
Organization: Ever Victorious Army / 常勝軍 · Relation: commander-of
Explicit · qingshigao:435:s0065

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true
Explicit · qingshigao:435:s0094, qingshigao:435:s0095

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: captured-Kunshan · Other Person Id: Cheng Xueqi (程學啟)
Explicit · qingshigao:435:s0070, qingshigao:435:s0074
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: siege-and-surrender-of-Suzhou · Other Person Id: Cheng Xueqi (程學啟)
Explicit · qingshigao:435:s0081, qingshigao:435:s0085
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: took-Changzhou
Explicit · qingshigao:435:s0087
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: took-Fushan-and-Taicang
Explicit · qingshigao:435:s0065, qingshigao:435:s0069
Relation: sworn-brother-like · Person Id: Cheng Xueqi (程學啟) · Label: as close as brothers / 昆弟交
Explicit · qingshigao:435:s0089

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: foreign general whose tactics were widely discussed · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:435:s0179
Assessment: praised for generalship · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:435:s0096
Item: Cheng Xueqi battle flags / 戰時大旗二 · Relation: keepsake · Other Person Id: Cheng Xueqi (程學啟)
Explicit · qingshigao:435:s0091

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 435Volume 435 Biographies 222: Hua Er, Lei Bo Lei Dong, Fa Er Di Fu, Ge Deng, Ri Yi Ge, De Ke Bei, He De, Bo Li · 11 passages

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華爾勒伯勒東法爾第福戈登日意格德克碑赫德帛黎 Ward, Lebrethon, Foudrinière, Gordon, Giquel, von Sternberg, Hart, and Brière

戈登，英國人。 Gordon was a Briton.

進攻太倉，毀南門賊卡，戈登轟潰二石壘，官軍繼進，克之。 In the advance on Taicang they destroyed the rebel barricade at the south gate; Gordon shelled and shattered two stone forts, the government troops pressed on, and the city fell.

譚紹光構悍賊來爭，與諸軍大破之，薄昆城，偕李恆嵩夾擊，賊酋偽朝將先期逸去。 Tan Shaoguang rallied fierce rebel troops to meet them; Gordon and the allied armies routed them, closed on Kunshan, and with Li Hengsong attacked from both sides while the rebel commander, the false Court General, had already fled.

踰月，學啟攻東城，戈登自果浦河奄至，扼守西路，分道疾攻。 A month later Xueqi assaulted the east wall while Gordon came up swiftly along the Guopu River, sealed the western approach, and both columns pressed the attack.

戈登诇知之，亟返崑山為備。 Gordon learned of this through his scouts and hurried back to Kunshan to prepare.

乃與學啟乘單舸會雲官等於洋澄湖，令斬秀成、紹光以獻，學啟與誓，戈登證之。 He and Xueqi then took a small boat to meet Yunguan and the others on Yangcheng Lake, demanding the heads of Xiucheng and Shaoguang as the price of surrender; Xueqi swore the pact and Gordon witnessed it.

初，戈登與學啟為昆弟交，每戰必偕。 Gordon and Xueqi had been as close as brothers and fought side by side in every engagement.

戈登歸後，埃及亂，督師討之，遇害。 After Gordon returned home, rebellion broke out in Egypt; he led a punitive expedition there and was killed.

戈登嘗言：「中國人民耐勞易使，果能教練，可轉弱為強。」 Gordon once said, "The Chinese are hardy and obedient; properly trained, they could turn weakness into strength."

論曰：華爾、戈登先後領常勝軍，立功江、浙，世稱「洋將」，時傳其戰略。 The commentators observe: Ward and Gordon led the Ever Victorious Army in turn, won fame in Jiangsu and Zhejiang as "foreign generals," and their tactics were widely discussed.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 467Volume 467 Biographies 254: Li Bingheng, Wang Tingxiang, Nie Shicheng, Luo Rongguang, Shou Shan Zu Sun : Rui Chang, Feng Xiang, Chong Yu · 1 passage

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又從西將戈登釋常、昭圍，以次下太倉、崑山諸邑。 He also followed Gordon in raising the sieges of Changzhou and Zhaowu, then took Taicang, Kunshan, and other towns in turn.