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Fashoda

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Fashoda [fəˈʃəʊdə]
n
(Placename) a small town in SE Sudan: scene of a diplomatic incident (1898) in which French occupation of the fort at Fashoda caused a crisis between France and Great Britain Modern name Kodok


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The result was a lack of strategy and vision for the Navy, the poor condition of which was finally revealed in the Fashoda crisis of 1898, which arose after a colonial expedition raised the French flag at the town of Fashoda, on the Nile, despite warnings from the British against such an act.
 
 
 
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