79 x 79 mm. A view showing the paddle steamer moored off Omdurman. The steamer arrived on September 7 unaware that Omdurman had fallen to Kitchener. On questioning, the dervishes aboard stated that they had been fired on at Fashoda by troops under European command and Kitchener realised that Marchand and his men had reached Fashoda before him. This was the start of the Fashoda Incident which came close to bringing England and France to war and which resulted in the name of Fashoda being changed to Kodok. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Omdurman'.