Talk:Lord George Gordon
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My compliments, Adam, you were quicker in sorting out the scanning and links issues. JFW | T@lk 17:47, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)
The penultimate paragraph seems a bit rough still. --Aaron 04:52, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I have taken out the following from the last paragraph, which seems to have been interposed from an entry on General Gordon of Sudan fame - "inference from carefully surveyed fact; with many variations of mood he mixed, as we often see in people less famous, an invincible faith in his own rapid prepossessions while they lasted. Everybody now discerns that to despatch a soldier of this temperament on a piece of business (the mission to the Sudan in 1884) that was not only difficult and dangerous, as Sir E. Baring said, but profoundly obscure, and needing vigilant sanity and self-control, was little better than to call in a wizard with his magic. Mr Gladstone always professed perplexity in understanding why the violent end of the gallant Cavagnari in Afghanistan stirred the world so little in comparison with the fate of Gordon. The answer is that Gordon seized the imagination of England, and seized it on its higher side. His religion was eccentric, but it was religion; the Bible was the rock on which he founded himself, both old dispensation and new; he was known to hate forms, ceremonies and all the solemn plausibilities; his speech was sharp, pithy, rapid and ironic; above all, he knew the ways of war and would not bear the sword for nought." - if I have completely missed the point please feel free to put back.... Martin
[edit] Opinions.
'crack-brained schemes'
that is one example of bias. All that needs to be laid out is FACTS. Opinions are not part of history. you must let people INTERPRET what happened and make their own conlcusions by stating facts only. -Andreea
[edit] Organization
The article is somewhat messy; there are two different life stories that should be intertwined, the beginning of the Judaism section is repetative, etc. --Meamcat 04:48, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
