Fashoda

a French officer, Major Marchand, put up the tricolor in some place called Fashoda in Africa, and the English objected.

Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900

I see among my compatriots the worst chauvinists, those who openly desire for me the fate of Jaurès, those who fought me in 1902 with cries of "Fashoda" or "Chicago," hasten to meet the English soldiers in order to aid and acclaim them, in this country still full of the memories and the ruins of the hundred years 'war!

New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index Various

The comments of the French press on Britain's attitude, despite their studied reserve and conventional phraseology, bordered on recrimination and hinted at a possible cooling of friendship between the two nations, and in the course of the controversy the evil-omened word "Fashoda" was pronounced.

The Inside Story of the Peace Conference Emile Joseph Dillon 1894

The democratic French politicians of the Third Republic were pretty strongly opposed to the democratic British politicians of the late Victorian period, and the two powers nearly came to blows at Fashoda in 1898.

Matthew Yglesias » By Request: Democratic Cooperation 2009

So Fashoda was all part and parcel of imperial tensions.

Matthew Yglesias » By Request: Democratic Cooperation 2009

Fashoda a location on the Nile was where the French government wished to extend their sovereignty at the expense of the Egyptians.

Fashoda Reconsidered :Impact of Domestic Politics on French Policy in Africa 1893-1898 by Roger Glenn Brown jmnlman 2008

Fashoda a location on the Nile was where the French government wished to extend their sovereignty at the expense of the Egyptians.

Archive 2008-07-01 jmnlman 2008

Ten years later, the rivals of Fashoda allied with Russia against Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey.

Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

“From the Atlantic to the Red Sea”: 1. French foreign minister Théophile Delcassé; 2. Captain Jean-Baptiste Marchand, dreaming of Fashoda.

Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

Prompt suggested the abandoned Turkish outpost of Fashoda as the location for a dam.

Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007