The Panama Canal: Readings on Its HistorySCOTT (copy 1): from the John Holmes Library collection. |
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In 1881 the great engineer James Buchanan Eads obtained a concession from Mexico for an interoceanic ship railway across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec where the United States had gained substantial transit privileges at the time of the ...
In 1881 the great engineer James Buchanan Eads obtained a concession from Mexico for an interoceanic ship railway across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec where the United States had gained substantial transit privileges at the time of the ...
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This civil government , distinct from engineering control of Canal work , was exercised over one of the most ... He had not been long on the Isthmus before he made it apparent that both as an engineer and as an administrator he stood in ...
This civil government , distinct from engineering control of Canal work , was exercised over one of the most ... He had not been long on the Isthmus before he made it apparent that both as an engineer and as an administrator he stood in ...
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Then for four years he was on duty in Washington as assistant to the chief engineer of the United States Army . When the Spanish War broke out he went to Chickamauga as chief engineer of the First Army Corps , under Major - Gen- eral ...
Then for four years he was on duty in Washington as assistant to the chief engineer of the United States Army . When the Spanish War broke out he went to Chickamauga as chief engineer of the First Army Corps , under Major - Gen- eral ...
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Contents
RUDOLPH J TAUSSIG | 1 |
Selected Abstracts Reprinted from Report of the AtlanticPacific Interoceanic Canal | 15 |
FESSENDEN N OTIS | 25 |
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