ONE MINUTE HISTORY - November 3, 2022

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Published on November 3, 2022 3:00:11 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuD-lV2nL5g

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On this day, two colonial superpowers just barely avoided a conflict between their growing empires. On November 3, 1898, France ordered its soldiers to withdraw from the Sudan, achieving a peaceful solution to a colonial dispute with the British Empire called the Fashoda Crisis. The crisis began when both British and French troops arrived at the isolated town of Fashoda in Africa’s Upper Nile Valley at roughly the same time with the intent of colonizing it. Thankfully, the two expeditions showed restraint and avoided violence, but the standoff evolved into a diplomatic crisis and both countries began making preparations for war. Ultimately, France backed down both because it was in the midst of political upheaval with the Dreyfus Affair and also because the French needed Britain on friendly terms should a war with Germany break out. The peaceful solution to the Fashoda Crisis laid the groundwork for just such an alliance in World War I.