GORDON'S DEATH. A FORMER COMPANION SAYS HE MIGHT HAVE ESCAPED.
Dr. Fricke, who accompanied General Gordon to Khartoum, and remained with him until his death, says Gordon had unlimited confidence in himself, and must have misled the British as to his critical situation. " Gordon's character," says Dr. Fricke, " was as obstinate as it was noble. His blindness to danger, and his deafness to the warnings of his friends, caused his death. If he had so desired he might have escaped two days before the fall of Khartoum with all the Europeans in the place. He was speared by his own soldiers when he came to inspect them."
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 411, 16 October 1889, Page 5
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107GORDON'S DEATH. A FORMER COMPANION SAYS HE MIGHT HAVE ESCAPED. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 411, 16 October 1889, Page 5
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