was over, he was recalled to the Sudan where he was killed after a nine-monthlong siege of Khartoum. The so-called Golgotha (Skull) Hill, located just outside the present-day Old City walls, near the Damascus Gate in the northern section of the city. Today the site lies at the back of the main East Jerusalem Bus Station with a Muslim cemetery called es-Sahira located on the hilltop. He is said to have made his identification of what would afterwards be known as Gordon’s Calvary on the roof of the