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Now mark this, if the Expeditionary Force, and I ask no more than two hundred men, does not come in ten days, the town may fall; and I have done my best for the honor of our country. Goodbye.

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If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

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I am a chisel which cuts the wood; the Carpenter directs it. If I lose my edge, He must sharpen me; if he puts me aside and takes another, it is His own good will. None are indispensable to Him. He will do his work with a straw equally as well.

Charles George Gordon

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Charles George Gordon

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Born: January 28, 1833
Died: January 26, 1885 (aged 51)
Bio: Major General Charles George Gordon, also known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British Army officer and administrator.

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