Western Civilization II / Unit 13 WC2 1214 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Fashoda, Rhodes, the Boer War, Suez, and Egypt
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The idea
The Suez Canal opened in eighteen sixty-nine; Britain bought Egypt's shares in seventy-five and occupied Egypt in eighty-two. Rhodes pushed north into Rhodesia. At Fashoda in eighteen ninety-eight France backed down. The Boer War, eighteen ninety-nine to nineteen oh-two, ended with British camps where nearly thirty thousand Boers died.
In practice
Cape to Cairo, Rhodes's railway dream.
Where people slip
Witness-built; the anchor names none of these.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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