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What was the name of the British General who commanded the British forces at Khartoum?
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The British General who commanded the British forces at Khartoum was Charles George Gordon. He had a low opinion of the Egyptian, Turkish and Arab Sudanese troops under his command-whom he constantly disparaged as a mutinous, badly disciplined and ill-trained rabble good only for looting – but had a much higher opinion of his black Sudanese soldiers, most of them former slaves who would rather die fighting as free men than live as slaves again; it was well