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| By G. W. Joy. The artist presents a wholly mythic representation of the event; Gordon was almost certainly cut down in much less heroic circumstances. Here the followers of the Mahdi are frozen in awe before hurling their spears at him. |
General Gordon is Killed
Joy, G.w.
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