Death of General Gordon at Khartoum  1895

Description of the event depicted in the artwork, as offered by Wikipedia: [br] "The manner of Gordon's death is uncertain, but it was romanticised in a popular painting by George William Joy – General Gordon's Last Stand (1893, currently in the Leeds City Art Gallery), and again in the film Khartoum (1966) with Charlton Heston as Gordon. The most popular account of Gordo...