The Fashoda Incident or Crisis was the climax of imperial territorial disputes between Britain and France in Eastern Africa, occurring in 1898. A French expedition to Fashoda on the White Nile sought to gain control of the Upper Nile and thereby exclude Britain from the Sudan, and possibly force the British out of Egypt as well. The British held f...
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(Sept. 18, 1898), the climax, at Fashoda (Kodok), Egyptian Sudan, of a series of territorial disputes in Africa between Great Britain and France.[5 related articles]
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