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... Lesseps must have felt disappointed at not being able to form a Franco - American company - a major impediment to the ultimate success of the works - but he nevertheless returned to France in March 1880 proclaiming that " the security ...
... Lesseps must have felt disappointed at not being able to form a Franco - American company - a major impediment to the ultimate success of the works - but he nevertheless returned to France in March 1880 proclaiming that " the security ...
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... Lesseps ' kindness , and on his accession to power he asked that his former tutor come to see him " immediately . " Perhaps more by intuition than by coincidence , de Lesseps had been studying every report on the Suez Canal project ...
... Lesseps ' kindness , and on his accession to power he asked that his former tutor come to see him " immediately . " Perhaps more by intuition than by coincidence , de Lesseps had been studying every report on the Suez Canal project ...
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... Lesseps calmed the viceroy down by ordering that the ship be blown up , but there was no need . The ship floated ... Lesseps made no mention of England's opposition . Ironically , the English warship Royal Oak collided with a sister ...
... Lesseps calmed the viceroy down by ordering that the ship be blown up , but there was no need . The ship floated ... Lesseps made no mention of England's opposition . Ironically , the English warship Royal Oak collided with a sister ...
Contents
BunauVarillas Last Campaigns | 299 |
Appendix 1 | 335 |
Appendix 3 | 349 |
Copyright | |
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