the site where both forces almost went to war was in FUSHODA
British and French forces almost went to war at Fashoda in the Sudan in 1898. The French were trying to gain control of the upper Nile to keep Britain out of Sudan.
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At Fashoda in the Sudan, 1989
Sudan is spelled "Soudan" in French.
French Sudan was created in 1890.
French Sudan ended in 1959.
Sudan People's Armed Forces was created in 1925.
Sudan is 'le Soudan' in French. This is a masculine noun.
Sudan gained its independence from the British.
Sudan is almost all desert....
The former colony of French Sudan (in French: le Soudan fran
Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, led the British and the Egyptian Armies that conquered Khartoum. In 1898, the Anglo-Egyptian forces routed the Mahdi's "dervish" army at Omdurman, and took control of Khartoum and Sudan.