Fashoda incident
Fashoda incident ( 18 September 1898 )The culmination of a long series of clashes between Britain and France in the “scramble for Africa”. The French objective, to occupy the sub-Saharan belt from west to east, countered the British aim of linking their possessions from the Cape to Cairo. Thus in 1896 the French dispatched a force under General Jean‐Baptiste Marchand from Gabon to occupy the Sudan , at the same time that Kitchener was moving up the Nile to recover Khartoum. Both reached Fashoda during the summer of 1898 , and as neither side desired conflict, they agreed that both French and British flags should fly over the fort. The matter was referred to London and Paris, and for a while tension...
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