Gordon (Charles George army officer, killed at the siege of Khartoum, 1833-85) Letter signed "CE Gordon", 1p., 8vo, 27th January 1870, as Royal Engineer officer in command at Gravesend and entrusted with supervising the erection of forts at the entrance of the Thames, "Sergt Pennant Clear the earth off the cracks in the foundations of Cliffe Fort sufficiently to mark exactly on this plan their position", folds, laid down on card, framed and glazed with a portrait of Gordon alongside letter. ⁂ The building of Cliffe Fort was part of a nationwide programme of updating the country's coastal defences and Cliffe Fort is one of a number of forts constructed along the River Thames as a consequence of the Royal Commission of 1859. Work begun in July 1861 and took nine years to complete at a cost of £162,937.
Gordon (Charles George army officer, killed at the siege of Khartoum, 1833-85) Letter signed "CE Gordon", 1p., 8vo, 27th January 1870, as Royal Engineer officer in command at Gravesend and entrusted with supervising the erection of forts at the entrance of the Thames, "Sergt Pennant Clear the earth off the cracks in the foundations of Cliffe Fort sufficiently to mark exactly on this plan their position", folds, laid down on card, framed and glazed with a portrait of Gordon alongside letter. ⁂ The building of Cliffe Fort was part of a nationwide programme of updating the country's coastal defences and Cliffe Fort is one of a number of forts constructed along the River Thames as a consequence of the Royal Commission of 1859. Work begun in July 1861 and took nine years to complete at a cost of £162,937.
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