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Scramble 17: Brazza, Fashoda, and Cesaire’s Discours – France in the Scramble concluded

The Anti Empire Project with Justin Podur

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The Scramble for Africa Is on Everybody's Grabbing, Right?

The scramble for africa is on everybody's grabbing, you know, any unoccupied the italians were headed in the same direction, but they were defeated by ethiopia in 18 96. In september of 96, leopold despatched a column of troops, apparently like five thousand congoles troops with artillery, headed toward the the white nile from stanleyville on the upper congo. It took them five months to reach lake albert on thewhite nile. This is 800 kilometers from fashoda still. But by the point that, by the time they reached that point, the soldiers were so angry at how they were being treated that they

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