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Gordon died on the steps of a stairway in the northwestern corner of the palace, where he and his body servant, Agha Khalil Orphali, had been firing at the enemy. Orphali was knocked unconscious and did not see Gordon die. When he woke up again that afternoon, he found Gordon's body covered with flies and the head cut off.
Gordon, fighting furiously with a revolver, was killed and beheaded outside the governor’s palace according to survivor accounts. It was a tragic, if hauntingly appropriate, end to a man who had lived by the sword for more than three decades.
Died: Jan. 26, 1885, Khartoum, Sudan (aged 51) Role In: Arrow War. Siege of Khartoum. Opium Wars. Charles George Gordon (born Jan. 28, 1833, Woolwich, near London, Eng.—died Jan. 26, 1885, Khartoum, Sudan) was a British general who became a national hero for his exploits in China and his ill-fated defense of Khartoum against the Mahdists.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
In the early hours of Monday, January 26th, 1885, Major-General Charles Gordon was killed by Mahdist forces overrunning Khartoum. There are various versions as to how he met his death. The first account to reach Cairo, although not based on the evidence of eye witnesses, described Gordon going, unresisting, to his doom.
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