The Fashoda Incident was a diplomatic crisis between Britain and France over control of the upper Nile, at a time of intense rivalry for colonial territory in Africa. A small French expedition led by Jean-Baptiste Marchand had crossed Africa from the Congo and reached the old fort at Fashoda, now Kodok in South Sudan. Soon afterwards, a much larger Anglo-Egyptian force under General Herbert Kitchener, fresh from defeating the Mahdists at Omdurman, arrived there and demanded that the French withdraw. Both governments came close to war, but France, isolated and absorbed in the Dreyfus Affair, backed down. A 1899 agreement set the boundaries of their spheres in the region, and the settlement paved the way for the Entente Cordiale of 1904.
Before and after
- 12 July 1898Discovery of xenon
- 18 July 1898Founding of Athletic Club
- 30 July 1898Death of Otto von Bismarck
- 16 August 1898Discovery of Phoebe
- from 18 September 1898 to 3 November 1898Fashoda Incident
- 26 September 1898Birth of George Gershwin
- 10 November 1898Wilmington Insurrection of 1898
- 21 November 1898Birth of René Magritte
- 29 November 1898Birth of C. S. Lewis
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