Fashoda Incident (1898): 1400 to 1900: Africa

King Leopold II of Belgium proclaimed sovereignty over the Congo Free State in 1876. The French carved out colonies in central Africa after the Berlin Conference of 1884–85. Meanwhile, the British, who had occupied Egypt as early as 1882, subsequently gained ...

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