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Egyptian Sudan 48 its province, then France agreed with the Kufra government to replace it in that region "until the Khedive of Egypt can recover it and return it to him as it is." In 1895, Sir Edward Grey gave a speech demanding Egypt's right, arguing that the English were guardians of its interests. Then the Sultan of Hanu denied this to England. The Marchand expedition was marching to Sudan, followed by the Egyptian expedition led by Sir Dare Kitchener, consisting of 24,000 Egyptians and 8,000 English. Egypt agreed to this expedition with an account opened for it by the British Treasury, because France and Russia denied Egypt the right to take money from the debt fund, so that England would force them to declare its plan in Egypt. When Kitchener entered Rebar, England asked France to relinquish Egyptian Sudan because it was the property of the Sultan and that the English, who were helping the Khedive, were helping him to recover his country's possessions. On this basis, France renounced its agreement with the Kufra government until the agreement of January 19, 1899, between England and Egypt, or rather between England and Qisma. Everyone says it is an agreement that does not conform to law or statute. But Lord Cromer praised Lord Salisbury for concluding it because "it did not start legally, so he showed great courage." That date is presented as it is, and it contains the true evidence for anyone who wants true evidence of one of the cycles of the moon and the chains that have bound Egypt for a full century until today we hear the English writers saying, "Where are you from Sudan, and where is Sudan from you?" We even saw the Nile, and they almost took it out of Egypt's grasp to be a yoke around the necks of its people. Egypt did not let Sudan go by evacuating it. Egypt recovered Sudan with its blood and money, and it is still the only faithful guardian of it, spending on its people for its organization. The Egyptian army and the Egyptian budget are the greatest witnesses for anyone who wants to bear witness.