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Article: Steaming through Africa.(Fashoda incident between France and England)(includes bibliography)
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- July 1, 1998
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On the hundred years ago a French expedition struggled from the mouth of the Congo to southern Sudan, only to have their plans thwarted by the British. Sarah Searight revisits the Fashoda incident.
On the evening of July 10th 1898 a small flotilla paddled to rest on the shore of the left bank of the White Nile, about latitude 10 degrees N. From the boats stepped five white men, haggard beneath their beards, and a group of black soldiery. They looked around wearily; after two years' travel from the Atlantic to the Upper Nile they had reached their goal -- a few palms and the collapsed walls of an Egyptian fort. This desolate spot was Fashoda. Pride at reaching their ...