During the siege of which African city did General Gordon die?
Siege money did not have ready access to official coinage minted by the civil authorities (see Civil War mints). The issuing of money during sieges is not restricted to that period; for example during the Siege of Khartoum (1884–1885) currency in the form of paper money was issued by Governor-General of the Sudan, British Major-General Charles George Gordon. During the Eighty Years War a number of towns and cities issued their own currency (money of necessity), for example during the siege of Leyden (1574), the authorities issued diamond (square) silver coinage struck with a circular die. When silver ran out they used
Siege of Fort Morgan Siege of Fort Morgan The Siege of Fort Morgan occurred during the American Civil War, as part of the battle for Mobile Bay, in Alabama (U.S.), during August 1864. Union ground forces led by General Gordon Granger conducted a short siege of the Confederate garrison at the mouth of Mobile Bay under the command of General Richard L. Page. The Confederate surrender helped shut down Mobile, Alabama, as an effective Confederate port city. Admiral David Farragut had defeated the Confederate navy in Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864, and Fort Gaines, guarding the western approach to the bay, had surrendered