Charles George Gordon arrived in China in the summer of 1860 as a Captain in the British Army and was involved in the reprisal looting and sacking of the Emperor's Summer Palace. Two years later he was appointed Mandarin and lieutenant-colonel in the Chinese army and was charged to clear the Tai Ping rebels from the district of Kiangxu, for which the Emperor awarded him the yellow jacket and peacock's feather of the Mandarin of the first class, and the highest military title Ti-tu. Gordon left China in 1864 as the Commander-in-Chief of the Emperor's Ever Victorious Army with the rank of Field Marshal, but still as a British Lieutenant-Colonel.

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