Egyptian Sudan 70 And when Egypt regained the Sudanese provinces that it had temporarily abandoned, England tried to prevent it, but First - the restoration of those provinces was at Egypt's expense and in its name, and England was working with its assistance, as it was in reality an ally of Egypt. This is what can be conclusively inferred from the aforementioned statements. Then Lord Kitchener, commander of the Egyptian army, stated to Commandant Marchand at Fashoda, saying, "The instructions he received stipulated that he should re-establish 'Egyptian authority' over the Fashoda province and that the French flag must not be raised on the 'possessions of His Highness the Khedive'." Then he wrote to him afterwards: "I must inform you that I have today raised the Egyptian flag over Fashoda, and that Egypt has definitively regained sovereignty over this land (see Lord Cromer's report, third year, 1898)." Second - the military forces used for the restoration were 25,000 from the Egyptian side, while those from the English side were initially 800 soldiers and did not exceed 2,000 soldiers. Third - the expenses of the restoration were £4,200,000, of which Egypt paid two-thirds. If England bore the third, then the mistake is not Egypt's but arises from the opposition of the Debt Commission. Fourth - as Egypt alone has paid for works and projects since it regained Sudan, excluding some, the amount spent is approximately £5,600,000. And Egypt alone has paid for the deficit that continued in Sudan's budget, reaching £4,500,000. Fifth - since the restoration, Egypt has been spending on ten thousand Egyptian soldiers in Sudan, and for every uprising within the country, it has borne the cost.