An 1898 French magazine cover showing Jean-Baptiste Marchand, who led an expedition to Fashoda in Sudan to claim it for France. This episode during the Scramble for Africa created the Fashoda Incident when France and Britain almost went to war over their competing claims for control of the Upper Nile.
Musee de l'Armee, Paris.
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