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Quotation from The River War by Winston Churchill
“Mad with the joy of victory and religious frenzy, they rushed upon him and, while he disdained even to fire his revolver, stabbed him in many places”
The River War, Chapter II: The Fate of the Envoy (1902 edition)
Churchill's version of Gordon's death at Khartoum in January 1885, written in the heroic mode of Victorian legend.
Citation: "Mad with the joy of victory and religious frenzy, they rushed upon him and, while he disdained even to fire his revolver, stabbed him in many places" — Winston Churchill, The River War, Chapter II: The Fate of the Envoy (1902 edition). (id the-river-war-q1)
Portrait: The Roaring Lion, Flickr : Sir Winston Churchill, Public domain.
