FTP identify this climactic incident in a series of Anglo-French colonial disputes in Africa.
Eventually resolved by an entente in 1904, it was set in motion after Gabriel Hanotaux promoted an expedition of 150 men to leave from Gabon under the command of Jean-Baptiste Marchand. They reached the namesake fort in July of 1898. Simultaneously, a British force held up at Omdurman and Khartoum reached the same fort three months later under the command of Horatio Kitchener, and a confrontation nearly ensued. FTP identify this climactic incident in a series of Anglo-French colonial disputes in Africa.
Eventually resolved by an entente in 1904, it was set in motion after Gabriel Hanotaux promoted an expedition of 150 men to leave from Gabon under the command of Jean-Baptiste Marchand.
Fashoda incident