Donald Stewart
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John Donald Hamill Stewart (1845-1884) var en britisk officer, som ledsagede Charles George Gordon på dennes sidste mission til Khartoum i 1884.
Stewart blev officer ved det britiske 11. hussarregiment i 1865. I 1882 fik han til opgave at udarbejde en rapport om situationen i Sudan, efter den mahdiistiske opstand. Efter en rejse til Khartoum udarbejdede han i 1883 'Report on the Soudan'.
Han vendte tilbage til Khartoum sammen med Gordon i februar 1884.
Stewart blev dræbt da hjuldamperen Abbas blev sendt nordpå til Egypten i september 1884, men faldt i et mahdiistisk baghold. Ombord var udover Stewart den britiske konsul, The Times korrespondenten Frank Power.
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[rediger] Om Gordon
[Gordon] is a charming chief and companion and I am sure we shall work hand in hand. [...]
[I am confident] that we shall come out of the affair with flying colours and with God's blessing pull England out of a serious difficulty. We do not mean to fight but to negotiate and use our personal influence. I am convinced Gordon will come well out of the affair and pull the chestnuts out from the fire.
Stewart til Haddie Stewart, 24. januar 1884[1]
I am leaving tomorrow for Khartoum on what I will not disguise from you is a dangerous expedition. I am going in the company of a very distinguished officer, Major General Gordon, who is at the same time an Englishman of the very noblest type, on a mission of very considerable importance ... if we come to grief it will be in a good cause.
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- Stewart Papers, Sudan Archive Durham (SAD D/S.1), citeret hos Pollock, John : Gordon. The Man Behind the Legend, Constable & Co., London, 1993, side 274 ↑
- Stewart Papers, citeret hos Pollock, s. 276 ↑
