Fashoda Incident(Sept. September 18, 1898), the climax, at
Fashoda, Egyptian Sudan (now Kodok, The South Sudan), of a
series of territorial disputes in Africa between Great Britain
and France.  The disputes arose from the common desire of each
country to link up its disparate colonial possessions in Africa.
Great Britain’s aim was to link Uganda to Egypt via a railway
from the Cape of Good Hope to Cairo, while France, by pushing
eastward from the west coast, hoped to extend its dominion
across Central Africa and the Sudan.  In order to fulfill
France’s expansionist aspirations, the French foreign minister,
Gabriel Hanotaux, promoted an expedition of 150 men eastward
from Gabon in 1896, under the command of Jean-Baptiste Marchand.
Equally determined to reconquer the Sudan, a British force under
Sir (later Lord) Horatio Herbert Kitchener was ordered
simultaneously to advance southward from Egypt (where the
British had been entrenched since 1882) up the Nile River.
Marchand reached Fashoda on July 10, 1898, and