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The History Of The Panama Canal
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Interest in a short route from the Atlantic to the Pacific began
with the explorers of Central America early in the 16th century. Hernán
Cortés, the Spanish conqueror of Mexico, suggested a canal across the
Isthmus of Tehuantepec; other explorers favored routes through Nicaragua
and Darién. The fi ....
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....ession from the Colombian government (Panama was then part of Colombia)
to dig a canal across the isthmus.
The international company failed, and in 1880 a French company was
organized by Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps, the builder of the Suez Canal. But
his company went bankrupt in 1889. But US interest in an Atlantic-Pacific
canal continued. In 1899 the US Congress created an Isthmian Canal
Commission to examine the possibilities of a Central American canal and to
recommend a route. The commission.... |
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