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General Charles George Gordon is the character most of us would dream of and love to have invented. British born Mercenary and General, he served with the British at Crimea, as a mercenary officer in the Taiping Rebellion and would eventually meet his maker at the siege of Khartoum in 1885, during the Mahdi's War.

But what if he had not died there?

Let's assume that Khartoum still falls, and with it Gladstone's Government, but that General Gordon and some of his men and family escape and eventually make it to a safe neighbor country or to Britain in 1885. What happens next?

How does this affect the Mahdist war, and what does Gordon do with his life after Sudan?
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