0 Gordon" is the most notable served in Sicily and Italy, and fought in' that battle of Maida in 1806 when British soldiers first in thi century d, by beating n superior force of them, that French soldiers wore not invincible, He himself was born eight-and forty years ngo. Ho was schooled at Taunton and Woolwich, till at fourteen he entered the Military Academy, where for five years, a hopeless once received a special rebuke and reduotion to the ranks from Lord Angle Ho longer getting, through his examinations than any other cadet had and he only passed into the at last by dint of the painful experience of examiners' little ways. which ho had acquired in a long course of plucking.
Tu 1852, however, he got his commission in the Engineers. He went to the Crimes, was wounded in th trenches, and was the attack on the Redan, He was afterwards employed on the Boundary Commis sions in Bessarabin and Asia, But while he was in the trenches before Sebastopol ing insurrection was making China the Manchu dynasty which had lasted two hundred, and the Chinese Empire which had lasted four thousand years. This insurrection was headed by Hung-Sow-tsun, who style himself the Tien Wang or Heavenly King, and professed a kind of Christianity. In 1853 he had captured Nanking, the ancient capital of China, and had barely failed to capture Peking, the modern
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