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Steaming through Africa.(Fashoda incident between France and England)(includes bibliography)
; ...Sarah Searight revisits the Fashoda incident. On the evening of July 10th...fort. This desolate spot was Fashoda. Pride at reaching their destination...oust them from the focus at Fashoda, both governments being motivated...hence the Egyptian fort at Fashoda. The defeat of the ...
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An obscure event resurrected from the footnote heap
; ...Levering Lewis's The Race to Fashoda (Weidenfeld & Nicholson...historical footnote, the Fashoda Incident of 1898 is now a way of seeing...the dark continent." The Fashoda Incident brought together two of the...gunboat in the river outside Fashoda. He does not neglect the...
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Leading Article: Cool down
; ...to our application to join the Common Market. Or the height of jingoistic anti-French sentiment at the time of the Fashoda incident in 1898, when the British successfully resisted French attempts to gain control of the Sudan and the two nations...
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The darkness we see in Africa lives deep within our hearts Reactions to the Bwindi killings tell us more about ourselves than anything else, says Ken Wiwa
; ...gorillas to revelations of "bungled warnings" and even the "Fashoda Syndrome", which was one paper's explanation of why English-speaki...the French-speakers spared (a reference to the so-called Fashoda incident in the last century when Britain frustrated French hopes...
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Rudyard Kipling still has them laughing in Edinburgh
; ...and was amazed to find how many little things still rankled with the French, small incidents that are completely unknown to the British, such as the Fashoda episode." (I looked this up once, and yes, the French did have something to brood over...
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The new geopolitics.
; ...acquisition of colonies with specific geographical locations. The incidents leading up to the First World War came out of this mode of thinking, such as the 1898 Fashoda incident over the headwaters of the Nile River that gave rise to a near...
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GADFLY - In praise of the old yellow peril
; ...victories - or the lack of them - with memories of the Fashoda incident, on the upper Nile in 1898. French troops had marched...with the British after the enforced surrender. The incident led directly to the entente cordiale being formed...
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Ewans, Martin European Atrocity, African Catastrophe: Leopold II, the Congo Free State and Its Aftermath.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
; ...also sheds light on often forgotten episodes in African history, such as the Emin Pasha relief expedition and the Fashoda incident. Scholars seeking social and economic data on Congolese peoples, their history, and their struggles to resist the...
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The Channel Tunnel. (Transport Transformations)(What Has Made the Year 2000 - Science, Technology, Communications)
; ...went into cold storage during and after the Franco-Prussian war and deteriorated in the 1890s (aggravated by the Fashoda incident') until, stimulated by the Frncophile Edward VII, the 1904 Anglo-French protocol nicknamed the `Entente Cordiale...
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Millennium Insights?The View Ahead Is Blank
; ...its military power. Conflicts in Asia and Africa were mainly projected conflicts of the Western powers, as in the Fashoda incident in Africa in 1898 involving Britain and France. The United States went to war in 1899 against a Philippine independence...
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