The threat of French occupation/Role of Kitchener Flashcards
Although influenced by Gordon’s death did Kitchener share personality traits with him?
What mission had Kitchener been part of in relation to Gordon?
What was strong about the prepartion of Kitchener’s campaign in Sudan?
How was the initial objective of Dongola met? What did Salisbury order Kitchener to do following this?
-Kitchener was influenced by General Gordon’s death but was a completely different character to Gordon himself.
-Kitchener had been part of the mission that failed to relieve Gordon from Khartoum.
-The campaign in Sudan was methodical, well-equipped and well-supported.
-The initial objective of Dongola was met easily and Salisbury authorised Kitchener to continue to retake Sudan.
Was Kitchener’s campaign in Sudan successful?
What was held for Gordon following this? Emotional state of Kitchener?
What did Kitchener order be done to the Mahdi’s tomb? His corpse?
Which young Journalist intervened to bury the Mahdi’s body?
-YES. The Campaign was successful and Kitchener’s force destroyed the Mahdist forces at their capital in Omdurman.
-A memorial service was held for Gordon, at which Kitchener shed tears.
-Kitchener ordered that the Mahdi’s tomb be opened to prevent it becoming a place of pilgrimage and severed the Mahdi’s head from the corpse.
-Winston Churchill.
Did Salisbury predict victory over the Mahdist forces to be immediately achievable?
What was the name of the first fully-automatic machine gun Kitchener used in his campaign?
How many Mahdist forces were killed? British?
What did Churchill criticise about the legality of Kitchener’s actions?
What year had the campaign ended?
-NO. Salisbury had wanted the deconstruction of Mahdism to be a long term goal but didn’t think it was immediately achievable.
-Kitchener’s careful advance and superior technology like the Maxim gun destroyed Mahdisim.
-10,000 Mahdist forces were killed and only 47 British soldiers died.
-Churchill recorded the entire campaign. He criticised Kitchener for not reissuing the order that injured soldiers should be spared.
-1898
Who led a French force through Fashoda(1898) in an attempt to meet with other forces in Djibouti?
Once confronted who had the larger force the French or Kitchener?
What had Kitchener been instructed to claim before rivals?
What did Kitchener allow the French to do?
What were the French relieved about?
Who did both sides agree to leave the disagreement with?
What did they both do instead?
How did this work itself into a jingoist frenzie?
-A tiny French force led by General Marchand had been travelling from Brazzaville in French Congo. They were waiting to be met by forces from Djibouti.
-Kitchener’s much larger force met Marchand at Fashoda in Sudan in September.
-Kitchener had been instructed to claim the Upper Nile over any rivals.
-Kitchener allowed the French flag to continue flying.
-The French were relieved to not be dealing with Mahdists.
-The two sides agreed to refer the disagreement to their capitals.
-They chose to have a bizarre party.
-Both governments deployed navies but France backed down as Britain’s navy was superior.
