Fashoda (present-day Kodok), Eastern Sudan. The British, led by Sir Herbert Kitchener, and the French, led by Major Jean-Baptist Marchand, unexpectedly meet. The former want to create a continuous British territory from Cairo to the Cape of Good Hope, the latter want to do the same with French territory from Dakar to Djibouti (then French Somaliland). The Fashoda incident brings the two colonial superpowers to the brink of war.
