General Kitchener, left, meets Major Marchand during The Fashoda Incident or Crisis, 1898. Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener,1850 - 1916. Senior British Army officer and colonial administrator. General Jean-Baptiste Marchand, 1863 - 1934. French military officer and explorer in Africa. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915