Long, Charles Chaille

The following data is extracted from Long Family Records.

soldier: b. Princess Anne, Md., 1842; appointed lieutenant-colonel in the Egyptian army, 1869, and assigned to duty as professor of French in the Military Academy at Abbassick; chief of staff to the general-in-chief of the army; in 1874 assigned as chief of staff to Gen. Charles George Gordon (then lieutenant-colonel in the British army), who had been appointed by the khedive governor-general of the equatorial provinces of Egypt; sent out toward the equator on a 'secret diplomatic and geographical mission; arrived at the capital of Nyanda and secured a treaty by which King M'Tse acknowledged himself a vassal of Egypt; turned north to trace the unknown part of the Nile and was attacked by savages; in 1875 led an expedition into the Niam-Niam country, subjected it to the authority of the Egyptian government, and dispersed the slave-trading bands; resigned his commission in the Egyptian army in 1877 and returned to New York, where he studied law at Columbia; in 1882 went to Egypt to practice in the international courts; assisted the refugees from the massacre at Alexandria by the Arabi insurrectionists and, after the burning of Alexandria, restored order and re-established the American consulate; removed to Paris in 1882 and opened an office for the practice of international law; in 1887 he was appointed U. S. consul-general and secretary of legation in Corea.

Source: Long Family Records

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