Volume I.

CHAP. PAGE

I. BIRTH AND EARLY LIFE 1

II. THE CRIMEA, DANUBE, AND ARMENIA 16

III. THE CHINA WAR 45

IV. THE TAEPING REBELLION 61

V. THE EVER-VICTORIOUS ARMY 78

VI. GRAVESEND AND GALATZ 127

VII. THE FIRST NILE MISSION 141

ILLUSTRATIONS.

PORTRAIT OF GENERAL GORDON, TAKEN SOON AFTER THE CRIMEA Frontispiece

HOUSE IN WHICH GENERAL GORDON WAS BORN To face page 16

THE LIFE OF GORDON.