Egyptian Sudan. 70 When Egypt recovered the Sudanese provinces which it had temporarily abandoned, England objected to this, but Firstly – the recovery of these provinces was at the expense of Egypt and by its will, and England was working with its assistance as an ally in reality to Egypt. This is what can be conclusively inferred from the aforementioned statements. Then the dispatches increased, and the Egyptian army commander, Marchand, stated in Fashoda, "The instructions he received stipulated that he should re-establish 'Egyptian authority' over the Fashoda province. And that he was granted, upon raising the French flag, the 'property of 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 control of this country (see The Times, third year (1898))." Secondly – the military forces used for the recovery were 25,000 from the Egyptian side, while those from the English side were initially 800 soldiers and did not exceed [this number] to [a larger number]. Thirdly – the expenses of the recovery were £2,400,000, of which Egypt paid two-thirds. And if England bore the third, then the mistake is not Egypt's, but rather a consequence of the opposition of the Debt Commission. Fourthly – Egypt alone has paid since the recovery of Sudan for the expenses of works and projects, except for the Makwar Dam, amounting to approximately £6,000,000. And its expenses are what paid for the successive deficit in Sudan's budget, amounting to what it paid in this regard, £350,000. Fifthly – since the recovery of Sudan, Egypt has been spending on ten thousand Egyptian soldiers in Sudan for external defense and to prevent any internal revolt, thus bearing