# Fashoda crisis (1898)

URL: https://history-france.com/timeline/1898-fashoda-crisis
Location: Sudan

French and British colonial forces confronted one another before France withdrew. Within the broader Third Republic period, The Third Republic survived war, the Commune, constitutional crises and fierce ideological conflict. It expanded mass schooling and empire, faced the Dreyfus Affair, fought World War I and entered the troubled interwar era. At this point in the timeline, the relevant governing authority is Félix Faure (President of the French Republic). Fashoda crisis mattered because it reshaped France’s external relationships, territory or place in wider international systems. The event is positioned here so visitors can read it alongside changes in government, warfare, society, religion, culture and France’s wider international setting.

## Why it matters
Fashoda crisis mattered because it reshaped France’s external relationships, territory or place in wider international systems.

Ruler at the time: [Félix Faure](https://history-france.com/rulers/felix-faure)

## Sources
- [Wikipedia topic lookup — Fashoda crisis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Fashoda+crisis&go=Go)
- [Encyclopaedia Britannica topic lookup — Fashoda crisis](https://www.britannica.com/search?query=Fashoda+crisis)
- [Vie-publique — French institutions and history](https://www.vie-publique.fr/)