WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1898, after a months-long hostile standoff over territorial influence in Africa, France and Britain were brought to the brink of an imperial war, and eventually, a peace agreement that lasts to this day, during what is referred to as the Fashoda Incident.

Detailed explanation-2: -Fashoda would strengthen France’s trade route from West Africa to its outpost in Djibouti, and act as a base from which to force the British out of Egypt.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Fashoda Incident was the climax of imperial territorial disputes between Britain and France in Eastern Africa in 1898. A French expedition to Fashoda on the White Nile river sought to gain control of the Upper Nile river basin and thereby exclude Britain from the Sudan.

Detailed explanation-4: -War between Britain and France was narrowly averted on this day in 1898 when France agrees to withdraw from modern-day South Sudan, ending the Fashoda Incident.

Detailed explanation-5: -They took five months to reach Lake Albert on the White Nile, about five hundred miles from Fashoda, but by then, their soldiers were so angry at their pace and treatment that they mutinied on March 18, 1897. Many of the Belgian officers were killed and the rest were forced to flee.