KODOK

kōˈdŏk, formerly Fashodafəshōˈdə, town, SE Sudan, on the White Nile. In 1898 it was the scene of the Fashoda Incident, which brought Britain and France to the brink of war and resulted, in 1899, in an Anglo-French agreement establishing the frontier between Sudan and the French Congo along the watershed between the Congo and Nile basins. The formation of an Anglo-French entente in 1904 prompted the British to change the town's name in hopes of obliterating the memory of the incident.

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...regularly at a place on the left bank, called Kodok, a weeks steaming above Khartoum. If the...Seen casually from the steamers deck, Kodok is the usual government post joined to...memorials now remain except these kept at Kodok by his English rivals. TABLE OF CONTENTS...
...known to outsiders had remained aloof since that time. When reports of Ngundengs final illness reached the province capital Kodok that January Captain OSullivan was sent with a small escort to make Deng Kur declare, if he was not really dead, and if dead...
...Nile in June 1898. Marchand traveled eastward along the Mbonu River, and reached the left bank on July 10 at Fashoda (modem Kodok).79 He had a small force intended for stealthy, rapid movement, which would not attract the attention of the British while...
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...this mission was one Pori (also pronounced as Podye), who is further said to have held the rank of hodok (a variant form of kodok, the ninth grade in Paekches sixteen-tier bureaucratic rank system as listed in the Samguk sagi). The two-character compound...


 

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...War as a model of English high-handedness. Fashoda turns out to be an old Egyptian fortress on the Upper Nile now known as Kodok, in southern Sudan. At the close of the 19th century, Britain and France were locked in a long-running struggle over colonial...


 

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KODOK ko dok, formerly Fashoda f sho d , town, SE Sudan, on the White Nile. In 1898 it was the scene of the Fashoda Incident, which...
...headwaters of the White Nile, Marchand led a heroic trek through uncharted terrain. In 1898 he established a post at Fashoda (now Kodok) and resisted dervish attacks. When Lord Kitchener arrived with a large British force, France and England stood at the brink...
...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...


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