Word: fashoda
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before the War, Mangin saw service in Senegal, the French Sudan, the Congo (Fashoda) under Colonel Marchand, in Tonkin, West Africa and Morocco, gradually rising to the rank of Brigadier General...
...Sept. 6 issue, for example, contained, in addition to the usual weekly supply of short excerpts from the foreign press, the following surplusage: Early Writings of Lewis Carroll (8 pp.), Memories of Fashoda (11 pp.), Francis of Cardona: A Cheerful Ascetic (7 pp.), The Formality of France (7 pp.), A Steed in the Senate, play by Leonid Andreev (10 pp.), two large cartoons...
...Aube, Doubs and Nord. After that he joined the Corps Diplomatique. He became French Minister Plenipotentiary to Tunis; Ambassador to Madrid, Constantinople and, in 1898, Ambassador to London, where he lived during the reigns of Queen Victoria, Edward VII, George V. His task at London was not simple. The Fashoda incident* was a sore point between France and Britain; but this pearl of ambassadors finally managed to smooth things over, and if not too well, he at least avoided a rupture of peaceful relations. . He was now free to start the greatest work of his life-the formation...
...French expedition under Major Marchand declined to obey Lord Kitchener's demand to withdraw from Fashoda on the River Nile. The two forces glared at each other for days, while a heated diplomatic duel was fought between Paris and London. Finally, French Minister Delcasse gave way; war was narrowly averted; France agreed to recognize that "the whole Nile really lies within the British sphere of influence...
Delcassé was Foreign Minister 1898-1905. His way was beset with the thorns of imperial rivalries. Due to a military incident war with England was threatened over Fashoda, a mud village in the heart of Africa. Later, when diplomatic relations had been strengthened by the Entente Cordiale, came the visit of Kaiser Wilhelm II to Tangiers with the ulterior object of testing the young Franco-British friendship. The visit caused the downfall of Delcassé, but his diplomatic triumph became evident in later years when Germany found that her filibustering attempts in Morocco had succeeded in alienating the whole...