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The Nile was and still is Egypt's, but what was established was in the face of Egyptian monarchy due to the Mahdist revolution, it was removed with the victory of Egyptian and English soldiers at the Battle of Omdurman. This is the text of a letter from Boutros Ghali Pasha, Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs, to Lord Cromer in response to his memorandum regarding the Fashoda crisis, dated October 19, 1898: "His Highness the Khedive's government, as Your Excellency knows, has never lost sight of the return to occupying the Sudan provinces, from which it only withdrew due to circumstances of force majeure. The restoration of Khartoum would be futile if the Nile Valley, for which Egypt has made great sacrifices in the past, did not return to Egypt. And perhaps the Fashoda issue is now the subject of discussion between England and France. The Egyptian government, which is entrusted to me, requests Your Excellency to kindly mediate with Lord Salisbury so that Egypt's indisputable rights are recognized and all the lands that its soldiers occupied at the outbreak of the revolution of Muhammad Ahmad are returned to it."