WHAT IF... BRITAIN AND FRANCE HAD GONE TO WAR IN 1898?
On 4 November 1898, the old adversaries of Britain and France stepped back from an escalating situation that threatened to add another bloody chapter to their long history of warfare. The so-called Fashoda Incident may have seemed like a small-scale territorial dispute over an unimportant patch of land in modern-day South Sudan, but it caused fear and warmongering back in Europe. If fighting did break out, it would have had “huge consequences for international relations and the course of the 20th century,” says historian and author Saul David.
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