"Gordon was certain[ly] a hero—the very embodiment of British chivalry and pluck. At the same time, he behaved recklessly and with very small regard to his own country."

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Edward Walter Hamilton, diary entry (11 February 1885), quoted in The Diary of Sir Edward Walter Hamilton 1880–1885, Volume II 1883–1885, ed. Dudley W. R. Bahlman (1972), pp. 793-794