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The Panama Canal Dream and the French Collapse
The piece traces initial canal ideas from Hatboa to the Spanish era and French effort led by de Lesseps. It covers the 19th century through the 1880s crash, detailing schemes, money manipulation, and the toll of yellow fever, with eventual transfer to American hands and leftover wreckage along the Isthmus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic
Pacific
Philip I
Spain
Beotehman
Patterson
Caledonian Bay
Panama
Nicaragua
Darien
Humboldt
Latin America
Central American and
United States Atlantic and Pacific Canal Company
Ciaton
Varioucewmes
United States
Nichragua
Hogota
Panama Canal
Luvlen
Honaparte Wyse
Fleutenart
Omnniups
Feaders
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Albert Edwards
Thay
We Trevepe
Rat
Panania
Universal Int Oceasile Canal Company
Wryce
Bona Fde
le Grand Francais
de Lossepa
Wyse
Count Himeel
France
Celnn
Ponena
Mile
Merdinande de Leuseps
Aoft
Bogota
Politiviane
de Lesseps
Edwards
Comal
United Hines
Epst Palace Cristobal
Ancon
Colon
Uncle Sam
Isthmus
Chicago