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The Canal Struggle and the Rise of American Control
A historical account recounts the long effort to build a canal across Central America, detailing treaty debates, French failures under de Lesseps, and the eventual American-led construction. It covers theHay-Paunceforte treaty, U.S. canal commissions, Goethals and Gorgas leadership, and the transformation of Panama into a healthy, modern zone while wartime financing and personnel changes shaped the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Fanarma
United States
Great Britain
Pacific
Nicaragua
Ferdinand de Lesseps
President Hayes
Panama
Hayes
DeLesseps
Ferdinand deLesseps
Isthmus
Suez Canal
Colombia
Paris
Gulf of Limon
Panama Bay
de Lesseps
Culebra
Congress
Tthassye
New York
France
Canal
Esseps
FoLesseps
Mpagne
Miertey
de Leseps
Fr Wd
Prigor
Elite de Lesseps
Phen
Nic
Ch Company
Nembatandi
Republic of
Pan- M
Bunau-Varilla
Republic of Panama
Roosevelt
Senate
George W. Davis
William P. Parsons
New York Subway
William H. Burr
New York University
Benjamin M. Harrod
New Orleans
Carl E. Grunsky
San Francisco
Frank T. Hecker
Detroit
John G. Walker
Davis
Canal Zone
General Davis
John Findlay Wallace
Iltidis Central Railroad
Wallace
Isthmian Canal Commission
Theodore P. Shonts
Charles E. Magoon
Taft
John F. Stevens
Philippines
Stevens
Army
Third Isthmian Canal Commission
George W. Goethals
Jackson Smith
W.lu. Sibert
D. D. Gaillard
W. C. Gorgas
H. H. Rousseau
J. ¢. S. Blackburn
Joseph Bucklin Bishop
Gorgas
Colonel Gorgas
Tropics
Canal Commission
Alabama
Rousseau