The ‘Fashoda Incident’ of 1898 was the climax of imperial territorial disputes between the Britain and France in which country?
Fashoda Incident considered by most historians to be the precursor of the Entente Cordiale. The two main protagonists are commemorated in the Pont Kitchener-Marchand, a road bridge over the Saône, completed in 1959 in the French city of Lyon. In 1904, Fashoda was officially renamed Kodok. It is located in modern-day South Sudan. Fashoda Incident The Fashoda Incident or Crisis was the climax of imperial territorial disputes between Britain and France in Eastern Africa, occurring in 1898. A French expedition to Fashoda on the White Nile river sought to gain control of the Upper Nile river basin and thereby exclude Britain from
Anglo-French Convention of 1898 of this convention was completed by a declaration signed in London on 21 March 1899 that, after the Fashoda Incident, delimited spheres of influence in northern Central Africa and the Sudan. Anglo-French Convention of 1898 The Anglo-French Convention of 1898, full name the "Convention between Great Britain and France for the Delimitation of their respective Possessions to the West of the Niger, and of their respective Possessions and Spheres of Influence to the East of that River", also known as the "Niger Convention", was an agreement between Britain and France that concluded the partition of West Africa between the colonial