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LEFT GORDIANUS III. 362 GORE 192 A. D. He died near Carthage, Africa, in 238. GORDIANUS III.. MARCUS AN- TONIUS PIUS, Roman emperor, grand- son of Gordianus I. ; born about 224 A. D. He was raised to the dignity of Caesar with Pupienus and Balbinus, who were also elected emperors in opposition to Maximinus; and, in the came year (238), after the three last named had fallen by the hands of their own soldiers, Gordi- anus was elevated by the Praetorian bands to the rank of Augustus. Assisted by his father-in-law, Misitheus, whom he made prefect of the Praetorians, Gordi- anus marched in 242 into Asia against the Persians, who under Shahpur (Sa- por) had taken possession of Mesopo- tamia and had advanced into Syria. He relieved Antioch, which was threatened by them ; drove back the Persians beyond the Euphrates; and was just about to march into their country when Misitheus died. Philip the Arabian, who succeeded Misitheus, stirred up the soldiery to assassinate the emperor in 244. GORDON. CHARLES GEORGE, called "Chinese Gordon" and "Gordon Pasha," an English soldier; born in Woolwich, England, Jan. 28, 1833. He entered the Royal Engineers in 1852, and served in the Crimea (1854-1856). The Taeping rebellion in China he completely crushed by means of a specially trained corps of Chinese. On his return to England with the rank of colonel, he was appointed chief engineer officer at Gravesend. From 1874 to 1879 he was governor of the Sudan under the khedive. For a few months in 1882 he held an appointment at the Cape, and had just accepted a mission to the Kongo from the King of the Belgians when he was sent to with- draw the garrisons in the Sudan, which were at the mercy of the insurgent mahdi. He was shut up in Khartum by the rebels, and gallantly held that town for a whole year. A British expedition- ary force under Lord Wolseley was dis- patched iov his relief; an advance corps of which sighted Khartum, Jan. 24, 1885, to find that the town had been treacher- ously delivered into the hands of the mahdi two days before, and Gordon mur- dered. His character was marked by strong religious feelings, which made him somewhat of a fatalist. GORDON, CHARLES WILLIAM, a Canadian author, writing under the name "Ralph Connor"; born in Indian Lands, Glengarry, Ont., Canada, in 1860. He was graduated at Toronto University in 1883 and at Knox College in 1887; was a missionary to Banff, etc.. Rocky Moun- tains, 1890-1894. He wrote "Beyond the Marshes"; "Black Rock"; "Given's Canon"; "The Sky Pilot"; "Ould Michael"; and "The Man from Glen- garry" (1901) ; "The Foreigner" (1909) ; "Corporal Cameron of the Northwest Mounted Police" (1912). GORDON, GEORGE ANGIER, an American clergyman and writer; born in Scotland in 1853. He attended the common schools in Scotland and removed to the United States in 1871. He gradu- ated from Bangor Theological Seminary in 1877 and from Harvard University in 1881. He was ordained to the Congre- gational ministry in 1877, and was pas- tor of churches in Maine and in Green- wich, Conn., from 1881 to 1883. In the following year he was appointed pastor of the Old South Church, Boston. He was university preacher at Harvard from 1886 to 1890, and at Yale from 1888 to 1901. He was an overseer of Harvard University from 1897 to 1916. He was a member of the National Insti- tute of Arts and Letters. His published writings include "The Christ of To-day" (1895) ; "The New Epoch for Faith" (1901) ; "Through Man to God" (1906) ; "Humanism in New England Theology" (1920). He was president of the Har- vard Alumni Association in 1918. GORDON, JOHN BROWN, an Amer- ican military officer; born in Upson co., Ga., Feb. 6, 1832; was graduated at the University of Georgia; admitted to the bar and began practice. When the Civil War broke out he was appointed a cap- tain of infantry in the Confederate army; served with marked distinction throughout the war, during which he was wounded eight times; was promoted Brigadier-General in April, 1863, and later Major-General. In 1873 he was elected to the United States Senate and served in that body till 1880, when he re- signed. In 1887-1900 he was governor of Georgia. On May 31, 1900, he was chosen commander-in-chief of the United Con- federate Veterans. General Gordon was widely known as an orator on events of the Civil War. He died in Florida, Jan. 9, 1904. GORDON BENNETT, MOUNT (named from James Gordon Bennett), a mountain seen in Africa by Stanley in 1875. It lies S. of Albert Nyanza, a little N. of the equator and E. of Ion. 30° E. It is a truncated cone, probably an ex- tinct crater, and rises 14,000 or 15,000 feet in height. It is sometimes covered with snow. GORE, THOMAS PYROR, an Ameri- can senator ; born in Webster co., Miss., in 1870. Although deprived of the sight of both eyes by two accidents in his early youth, he completed his education at the