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Monument to Captain Marchand in Paris, showing the route
he took from the French Congo to the Nile in 1896/98,
with 20 French officers and 130 Senegalese troops
Marchand and his African troops defend Fashoda from Mahdist gunboats (image published in L’Illustration,
August 1898)
The Battle of Omdurman, September 2, 1898:Lord Kitchener defeated the Mahdists with 8,000 British and 17,000 Egyptian troops and then arrived at Fashoda
Captain Marchand rows out from
Fashoda to parley with Lord
Kitchener, 19 September
1898;the French
government ordered Marchand
to evacuate on November 3
The Young Turks displayed special
interest in the employment of German military
trainers(cartoon from
Punch, October 5, 1910)
The “National Socialist” Maurice Barrès presidesover a Joan of Arc festival in Compiègne, June 13,
1913
Munich’s Odeon Square, August 1, 1914: “I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven for granting me the good fortune of being permitted to live at this time.” (Mein Kampf, p. 161)