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Fashoda Incident: When Britain and France Almost Went to War in Africa

Preoccupied with their increasingly paranoid rivalry, neither the British nor the French governments were very much concerned with the fate of the Africans living in the states they dreamed of controlling. Sudan had very little to offer any colonial power other than prestige, but prestige feeds vanity, and it was this vice, both in Britain and France, that underpinned the game of diplomatic charades played out in the final months of 1898. France had made such a bold opening move in Sudan by occupying Fashoda that only a total rebuttal could be tolerated by the British.

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⇒ Fashoda Incident: When Britain and France Almost Went to War in Africa

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Ceremonial presentation sword attributed to Jean-Joseph-Marie-Anatole Marquet de Vasselot, Louis Alphonse Auger, and Siot-Decauville, Paris, France, 1889, presented to Jean-Baptiste Marchand for his conduct at Fashoda. Currently housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art

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NEW MAP: Sub-Saharan Africa 1899: Voulet–Chanoine and Rabih (17 Jul 1899) https://buff.ly/36QMy9P Following the Fashoda Crisis (1898), France sought to unite its colonies in western Africa by sending a two-pronged offensive from Senegal and the French Congo to conquer the Chad Basin. In a disastrous start, the Senegalese column mutinied under captains Voulet and Chanoine, embarking on a six-month killing spree across the Sahel before it was finally stopped in July 1899. Compounding French failure, the Chad-based warlord Rabih attacked and destroyed the Congolese column at the same time. Together, these setbacks delayed French expansion in the region by almost a year. #1890s #1899 #19thcentury #africa #africanhistory #fashoda #cartography #centralafricanrepublic #chad #damagaram #frenchempire #frenchequatorialafrica #frenchwestafrica #historisch #historymaker #historynerd #july #july17 #mapping #maps #maradikingdom #militaryhistory #niger #rabih #subsaharanafrica #victorian #victorianera #frenchcongo #sahel #newmap (at Zinder) https://www.instagram.com/p/CA7QCqvAdcg/?igshid=1vwru20l5d8ys

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Crise de Fachoda: Quand la Grande-Bretagne et la France ont frôlé la guerre en Afrique

La crise de Fashoda, survenu en 1898 au Soudan, provoqua une crise diplomatique entre les empires britannique et français. Une petite force française revendiquait l'autorité sur la ville de Fachoda (aujourd'hui Kodok) et la vallée du Haut-Nil. Une force britannique bien plus importante, forte de sa récente victoire sur l'État mahdiste lors de la bataille d'Omdourman, exigea le retrait des Français, qui finirent par s'exécuter. Cet incident chaotique, survenu dans le contexte de la ruée vers l'Afrique, faillit déclencher une guerre entre les deux puissances coloniales, qui se méfiaient de plus en plus des intentions l'une de l'autre. La crise de Fachoda détériora les relations anglo-françaises, qui ne furent rétablies que lorsque les deux États prirent conscience que l'Allemagne impériale constituait la véritable menace pour eux en Europe et au-delà.

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The Fashoda Incident

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Conflict On the Nile: The Fashoda Incident of 1898 by Patricia Wright

Kodok or Kothok, formerly known as Fashoda is a town in the north-eastern South Sudanese state of the Upper Nile, i.e. the origins of the Shilluk Kingdom. "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." (source)

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