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Why did Gordon have a low opinion of the Egyptian, Turkish and Arab Sudanese troops under his command?
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Gordon had a low opinion of the Egyptian, Turkish and Arab Sudanese troops under his command because he felt that they were a mutinous, badly disciplined and ill-trained rabble good only for looting. He also had a low opinion of his black Sudanese soldiers, most of whom were former slaves who would rather die fighting as free men than live as slaves again.