Send ships on the Blue Nile and the White Nile. If you find the French or Abyssinians in either, be careful not to do anything that would impede their influence in the Nile's course.

On September 19, Sirdar Kitchener arrived at Fashoda, where Marchand was. At that moment, the time came to resolve the issue between France and England. On the evening of September 20, the Egyptian flag was raised there, and half a company was left to guard it. Kitchener returned to Khartoum. Among the statements of the English ministers, Sir Edward Grey said, "We cannot concede to the French the upper reaches of the Nile, because the Nile is Egypt and Egypt is the Nile." The matter between France and England escalated to war, so France consulted Russia, and the Tsar's government replied that the matter should be resolved amicably while preserving the honor of its flag.

On October 4, the French government decided to withdraw its troops from Fashoda. On the same evening, a grand celebration was held at the London Town Hall in honor of Lord Kitchener, and the Prime Minister announced the news of Marchand's withdrawal from Fashoda, which was "of no importance in the eyes of the government of the Republic." On March 21, 1899, Monsieur Cambon, the French ambassador, and Lord Salisbury signed an agreement, the essence of which was that the boundaries of French influence were the mountains separating the Congo River and the Nile River, and French influence receded from Bahr el Ghazal. However, this agreement did not affect Egypt's rights, but it did affect France's influence in Wadai, an influence that the Fersine ministry began to dismantle in 1882, and the Delcassé ministry completed this dismantling in 1899. If Desaix, one of Napoleon's commanders, had carved his name on the wall of Aswan while pursuing the Mamluks, that name was carved by an English officer who did not know the value of history. The governor of Sudan changed the name of Fashoda to Kodok so that the name would not remain a bad memory between the English and the French.

However, the English did not wait for France to sign the agreement of March 21, 1899.