The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon
The Chronicles of
a Gay Gordon By
Brig.-General J. M. Gordon, C.B.
With Eleven Half-tone Illustrations
Cassell and Company, Limited, London
New York, Toronto and Melbourne 1921
Photo: Lafayette, Ltd., Glasgow.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
José Maria Jacobo Rafael Ramon Francisco Gabriel del Corazon de Jesus Gordon y Prendergast—to give the writer of this book the full name with which he was christened in Jeréz de la Frontera on March 19, 1856—belongs to an interesting, but unusual, type of the Scot abroad.
These virile venturers group themselves into four categories. Illustrating them by reference to the Gordons alone, there was the venturer, usually a soldier of fortune, who died in the country of his adoption, such as the well-known General Patrick Gordon, of Auchleuchries, Aberdeenshire (1635-1690), who, having spent thirty-nine years of faithful service to Peter the Great, died and was buried at Moscow. Or one might cite John Gordon, of Lord Byron’s Gight family, who, having helped to assassinate Wallenstein in the town of Eger, in 1634, turned himself into a Dutch Jonkheer, dying at Dantzig, and being buried at Delft.
J. M. Gordon
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CONTENTS
BRIG.-GENERAL J. M. GORDON’S DESCENT AT A GLANCE
Part I
CHAPTER I
MY SCOTS-SPANISH ORIGIN
CHAPTER II
MY SCHOOLING
CHAPTER III
A FRONTIER INCIDENT
CHAPTER IV
FIRST WAR EXPERIENCE
CHAPTER V
MY MEETINGS WITH KING ALFONSO
CHAPTER VI
WITH DON CARLOS AGAIN
CHAPTER VII
MY FIRST ENGAGEMENT
CHAPTER VIII
SOLDIERING IN IRELAND
CHAPTER IX
UNRULY TIMES IN IRELAND
CHAPTER X
SPORT IN IRELAND
CHAPTER XI
A VOYAGE TO NEW ZEALAND
CHAPTER XII
A MAORI MEETING
CHAPTER XIII
AN OFFER FROM THE GOVERNOR OF TASMANIA
CHAPTER XIV
I BECOME A NEWSPAPER PROPRIETOR
CHAPTER XV
A MERCHANT, THEN AN ACTOR
CHAPTER XVI
AS POLICEMAN IN ADELAIDE
MILITARY APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS OF BRIGADIER-GENERAL JOSEPH MARIA GORDON, C.B.
Part II
CHAPTER I
SOLDIERING IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA
CHAPTER II
POLO, HUNTING AND STEEPLECHASING
CHAPTER III
THE RUSSIAN SCARE AND ITS RESULTS
CHAPTER IV
THE SOUDAN CONTINGENT
CHAPTER V
A TIME OF RETRENCHMENT
CHAPTER VI
MY VISION FULFILLED
CHAPTER VII
THE GREAT STRIKES
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
MILITARY ADVISER TO THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES IN LONDON
CHAPTER X
OFF TO THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR
CHAPTER XI
WITH LORD ROBERTS IN SOUTH AFRICA
CHAPTER XII
IN COMMAND OF A MOUNTED COLUMN
CHAPTER XIII
SOME SOUTH AFRICAN REMINISCENCES
Part III
CHAPTER I
ORGANIZING THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
CHAPTER II
COMMANDANT OF VICTORIA
CHAPTER III
COMMANDANT OF NEW SOUTH WALES
CHAPTER IV
LORD KITCHENER’S VISIT TO AUSTRALIA
MANŒUVRE AND TACTICAL EXERCISE
MANŒUVRE AND TACTICAL EXERCISE
CHAPTER V
THE AMERICAN NAVAL VISIT
CHAPTER VI
CHIEF OF THE GENERAL STAFF
INDEX