The Marchand Expedition and the Kitchener Expedition - The McDonald Expedition - The Cavendish Expedition

Fashoda

The English occupation. When negotiations between England and the Khedivate failed in 1898,

Monsieur Ronte, a French member of the railway,

The Khedivate decided to send Monsieur Carnot, a representative of the French Republic and his colleague in his studies,

to occupy Fashoda in Egyptian territory. England protested against this occupation.

It was decided that this point would be Fashoda in the Egyptian Sudan (1) because the arrival of the French there was a threat

and because it was the gateway to Egypt, (2) and because it was a center of their influence in Africa,

at the confluence of the Sobat River with the Nile.

Monsieur Carnot saw the wisdom of this decision, and the government of the French Republic sent

4. However, England intended to possess the Sudan

after forcing Egypt to evacuate it. From Uganda, after

Emin Pasha was brought out

from the equator, and Colonel Montaigne said, "England will not leave

Egypt

until it possesses the Sudan and the road to Suakin." In 1897,

Marchand succeeded Montaigne

at the head of the Fashoda expedition, and France sent Monsieur L'Egrange to the Sudan to form a

force to confront

Marchand's force.

When the English felt the French presence and their advance from Uganda, they sent the Egyptian expedition. When

the Sirdar occupied Omdurman, he learned that Marchand had occupied Fashoda on July 10, 1898, which was two months

before the Sirdar's arrival in Omdurman. Marchand's force consisted of

120 Sudanese soldiers and 12 French officers. Lord Kitchener continued his march to Fashoda,

where he met Marchand and raised the Egyptian flag 100 yards from the French flag.