Charles George Gordon

Charles George "Chinese" Gordon (b 1833) was a British general.

He earned the nickname "Chinese" when he served in the Second Opium War between Britain and China, then commanded the so-called (and misnamed) Ever-Victorious Army to protect European interests in China.

In 1882, during the Second Mexican War, he commanded a British army in Canada that was charged with invading the United States via Montana. His force consisted of a column of infantry screened by lancers. He was defeated by a US force of one regiment of regular infantry, one dismounted regiment of regular cavalry, Theodore Roosevelt's Unauthorized Regiment, and a battery of Gatling guns commanded by General George Armstrong Custer.