The Building of the Panama Canal in Historic Photographs Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) experienced the
The Building of the Panama Canal in Historic Photographs Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) experienced theIn 1889 the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocanique declared bankruptcy. The French firm's optimistic and ill planned attempt to construct a canal across the Isthmus of Panama had resulted in the death of 22,000 workers (most from yellow fever, typhoid fever, and malaria); the complete loss of one and a half billion francs for the company's 800,000 shareholders; and the bitter failure of Chief Engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps the man responsible for
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