FASHODA INCIDENT

fəshōˈdə, 1898, diplomatic dispute between France and Great Britain. Toward the end of the 19th cent., while Britain was seeking to establish a continuous strip of territory from Cape Town to Cairo, France desired to establish an overland route from the Red Sea to the Atlantic Ocean. To make good their claim the French dispatched (May 1, 1897) Major J. B. Marchand with a small force from Brazzaville, in the face of a British warning. After crossing over 2,000 mi (3,200 km) of almost unexplored wilderness, Marchand reached (July 10, 1898) the village of Fashoda (now Kodok) on the Nile in the S Sudan. Beating off a Mahdist attack, he stopped there to await an expected Franco-Ethiopian expedition from the east. Meanwhile, Lord Kitchener's Anglo-Egyptian army had defeated (Sept. 2) the Mahdists in the N Sudan. When he heard of the French activities, Kitchener led forces upriver to Fashoda and, despite Marchand's presence, claimed (Sept. 19) the town for Egypt. The French government resisted for a time, but, fearing war, ordered its mission to withdraw on Nov. 3. In Mar., 1899, France yielded its claim to the upper Nile region and accepted part of the Sahara as compensation.

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Fashoda, the Incident and Its Diplomatic Setting
Book by Morrison Beall Giffen; The University of Chicago Press, 1930
Subjects: Fashoda Crisis, 1898, French--Sudan, Sudan--History
...exposition of French and English policies during the Fashoda crisis. Perhaps the sketch has been too slight...principle may be more fully exemplified in the Fashoda incident, and the Fashoda incident be explained by the principle. It is...
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French Foreign Policy from Fashoda to Serajevo (1898-1914)
Book by Graham H. Stuart; Century, 1921
Subjects: Europe--Politics And Government--1871-1918, France--Foreign Relations--1870-1940
...at any moment bring them into active conflict. The Fashoda incident only too clearly showed the danger: -- "France and...them fight to the death." 17 . Before taking up the Fashoda affair, with which our narrative proper begins...
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Anglo-French Relations, 1898-1998: From Fashoda to Jospin
Book by Philippe Chassaigne, Michael Dockrill; Palgrave, 2002
...happened between the nations during this past century. Is it really necessary, by the way, to repeat that the Fashoda incident in itself has been quickly forgotten by the British and that it means virtually nothing to them? With the benefit...
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Incidents and International Relations: People, Power, and Personalities
Book by Gregory C.Kennedy, Keith Neilson; Praeger, 2002
Subjects: Great Britain--Foreign Relations--Case Studies, International Relations--Case Studies, World Politics--Case Studies
...territory from Lake Tiberius toward Quneitra. 60 For many, the Fashoda spirit lived on. At Smarts prompting, by November 1925 the...Damascene neighbors, Muslim and Christian alike. 61 AVOIDING INCIDENT: THE DE JOUVENEL PERIOD A month after the shortcomings of...
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From Agadir to Armageddon: Anatomy of a Crisis
Book by Geoffrey Barraclough; Holmes & Meier, 1982
Subjects: Agadir Incident, 1911, Europe--Foreign Relations, World Politics--1900-1918
...colonial Africa. Once the fever of the scramble for Africa died down, as it did to all practical intents after the Fashoda incident of 1898, the colonial powers had begun to take stock of the miscellaneous territories they had picked up on the...
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Justice, Zola's Global Utopian Gospel
Journal article by Carmen Mayer-Robin; Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Vol. 36, 2007
Subjects: Authors, French--Criticism and interpretation, French writers--Criticism and interpretation, Justice (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Zola, Emile--Criticism and interpretation
...contemporary fears about British supremacy in Africa and ongoing European conflicts being played out abroad, the Fashoda Incident of 1898 and the 1899-1902 Anglo-Boer War providing just two famous examples. In the plans for Justice, Zola...
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Celui Qui Dreyfuse: Alfred Jarry and the Dreyfus Case
Journal article by J. A. Cutshall, Misia Sert; Symposium, Vol. 43, 1989
Subjects: Jarry, Alfred--1873-1907
...reference to Mercier, 64 concentrates for the most part on mocking French colonial ambitions in the wake of the Fashoda incident. 65 Most of Jarrys remaining comments on Dreyfus come from his journalism, and these include perhaps the only entirely...
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"The Hun Is at the Gate!": Historicizing Kipling's Militaristic Rhetoric, from the Imperial Periphery to the National Center
Journal article by A. Michael Matin; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 31, 1999
Subjects: Kipling, Rudyard--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Politics and literature--Analysis, War and literature--Analysis
...during this meeting that the Penjdeh Incident occurred, bringing Britain and Russia...Boers against the British; the 1898 Fashoda Crisis, in which Britain and France...the war with Russia that the Penjdeh Incident seemed likely to trigger: We shall blunder...
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From Uncertainty to Opposition: French Catholic Liberals and Imperial Expansion, 1880-1885
Journal article by Alfred Perkins; The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 82, 1996
Subjects: Catholicism, Colonialism, France, History, Liberalism
...heated debate about how best to avenge the incident. Fearful of deeper engagement far from...bombardment of Alexandria to the standoff at Fashoda in 1898, it is hard to fault the liberals...also Le Monde in that period. 37 The incident, December 18, 1883, was widely reported...
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Colonial Dreams of the French Right Wing, 1881-1914
Journal article by Aviel Roshwald; The Historian, Vol. 57, 1994
Subjects: Colonization--Political aspects, France--Colonies, Morocco--History, Nationalism--France
...guides who murdered him on the way.(18) Within days of the incident, the right-wing press was rife with accusations of French...and its attacks on the government for its capitulation at Fashoda (La Libre Parole, September-November 1898). (9) Sternhell...
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The Panther at Agadir: The Agadir Crisis of 1911 Was One of a Number of Incidents That Raised International Tensions in the Years before 1914. Nigel Falls Describes the European Powers' Interests in Morocco and Their Response to the Crisis
Magazine article; History Today, Vol. 57, January 2007
Subjects: International relations--Political aspects, Moroccan Crisis, 1905-1911, Morocco--Economic aspects, Morocco--History, War--Political aspects, Wars--Political aspects
...1911 Was One of a Number of Incidents That Raised International...use this relatively minor incident to establish claims of priority...climbdown to the British at Fashoda in 1898. His passive endorsement...to exploit minor border incidents under the so-called Lyautey...1910 alone there were five incidents resulting in armed intervention...reaction to another security incident in January 1911 was considered...
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Steaming through Africa
Magazine article by Sarah Searight; History Today, Vol. 48, July 1998
Subjects: Imperialism--Military aspects, Military communications--History
...Searight revisits the Fashoda incident. On the evening of...Marchands expedition reached Fashoda, but that the British...plight of the French at Fashoda; Delcasse was determined...should appear resolute. Incident became crisis with remarkable...
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Strangest of Bedfellows: The Entente Cordiale, to Be Celebrated by the Queen in a Sentimental Speech, Is a Lie. in 1904, It Stopped Britain and France Going to War, but Only Just
Magazine article by David Lawday; New Statesman, Vol. 133, March 15, 2004
Subjects: British foreign relations--Analysis, United Kingdom--International relations
...start to mutter darkly about the "Fashoda incident". I have yet to meet one English person who has so much as heard of Fashoda. The French still smart over it...of English high-handedness. Fashoda turns out to be an old Egyptian...
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Gunboats on the Nile
Magazine article by Emory F. Nolan; Sea Classics, Vol. 37, April 2004
...armed French force had occupied Fashoda, 400 miles south of Khartoum...Ten days later he arrived at Fashoda to find the French tricolor...troops. A major international incident, perhaps even a war, could...Later, in Europe, the "Fashoda Incident" would be hotly argued...
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A Tale of Two Scandals: The Innocence of France's Captain Dreyfus-A Jewish Officer Incarcerated on Devil's Island after He Was Accused of Spying for Germany-Has Long Been Established. but Was There a Real Traitor? and What Part Did Oscar Wilde Play in the Murky Affair?
Magazine article by Nigel Jones; History Today, Vol. 61, February 2011
Subjects: Dreyfus, Alfred--Social aspects, Espionage, Scandals, Wilde, Oscar--Social aspects
...the two states reached a nadir during the two simultaneous scandals, with the colonial rivalry arising from the Fashoda Incident of September 1898 adding fuel to a smouldering fire. Only in the new century would the two old enemies sink their...
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encyclopedia articles on: Fashoda Incident  - 9 results

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Fashoda Incident
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FASHODA INCIDENT f sho d , 1898, diplomatic dispute between...reached (July 10, 1898) the village of Fashoda (now Kodok ) on the Nile in the S Sudan...activities, Kitchener led forces upriver to Fashoda and, despite Marchands presence, claimed...
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Kodok
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KODOK ko dok, formerly Fashoda f sho d , town, SE Sudan, on the...In 1898 it was the scene of the Fashoda Incident, which brought Britain and France...of obliterating the memory of the incident...
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Marchand, Jean Baptiste
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...uncharted terrain. In 1898 he established a post at Fashoda (now Kodok) and resisted dervish attacks. When Lord...France and England stood at the brink of war; the Fashoda Incident ended with Marchands withdrawal. Marchand fought in...
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France
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Africa (Morocco, Tunisia, West Africa, Madagascar) and Indochina, bringing conflict with Great Britain (see Fashoda Incident ) and with Germany (see Morocco ). Eventually, France, England, and Russia allied themselves to balance the...
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Faure, FÉlix
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and Faure marred his reputation by opposing a new trial. The Franco-Russian alliance was concluded, and the Fashoda Incident occurred while he held office. Emile Loubet succeeded him as president...
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