Fashoda

[ fuh-shoh-duh ]

/ fəˈʃoʊ də /

noun

a village in the SE Sudan, on the White Nile: conflict of British and French colonial interests 1898 (Fashoda Incident).

Modern name Ko·dok

[koh-dok] /ˈkoʊ dɒk/.

Example sentences from the Web for fashoda

Then he returned to Khartum, leaving a strong garrison at Fashoda, in charge of a colonel.

My Memoirs |Marguerite Steinheil
I put Fashoda first, because the incident came perilously near embroiling us in war with France.

Mr. Punch's History of Modern England Vol. IV of IV. |Charles L. Graves
The news has come that Marchand left Fashoda on the eleventh.

My Memoirs |Marguerite Steinheil
In the days of Fashoda the Frenchman was a degenerate tigre-singe, the sworn enemy of religion and soap.

The Open Secret of Ireland |T. M. Kettle

Like the rest of the Soudan, the Shilluk country, in which Fashoda is situated, had suffered terribly and been sadly depopulated.

Khartoum Campaign, 1898 |Bennet Burleigh

British Dictionary definitions for fashoda

Fashoda

/ (fəˈʃəʊdə) /

noun

a small town in SE Sudan: scene of a diplomatic incident (1898) in which French occupation of the fort at Fashoda caused a crisis between France and Great Britain Modern name: Kodok

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