How did Charles George Gordon die?
In battle
Assassination
Disease
Killed during the fall of Khartoum
Answer
Charles George Gordon was killed during the fall of Khartoum, after a lengthy siege by the Mahdi's forces. Despite the British government's reluctance to send a relief force, public pressure eventually led to its deployment, but it arrived two days too late to save Gordon.
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