The Fashoda Incident of 1898 occurred in Sudan and caused a diplomatic crisis between the British and French empires. #History #MahdistWar #FashodaIncident #Colonialism #Fashoda #FashodaCrisis #HerbertKitchener #Imperialism #ScrambleForAfrica #Sudan #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-26179-en/

#OTD 125 years ago, the British won one of the most lopsided battles of all time - Omdurman. Enduring only 48 casualties, they inflicted about 10,000 on their Mahdist enemies. The battle also had a decisive impact on the colonial standoff with France at #Fashoda: https://cliosboardgames.wordpress.com/2018/07/08/standoff-at-the-nile-the-fashoda-crisis/