Panama Canal

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of his sea-level canal due to his very popular reputation. He was sold on the idea of a sea-level canal and would not listen to the ideas of others such as French engineer, Adolphe Godin de Lepinary. De Lepinary's idea was to create two large lakes on either side of the mountains. In order to do this they would have to dam the Chagres River on the Atlantic side and the Rio Grande River on the pacific side (Considine).
Although as time went on more than just a poor director held back the finalization of the canal.
Disease, death, and rough terrain slowed down the completion of the canal. "The Terrain at the Isthmus was something they had never experienced and had not put a serious study of it, a very grave error" (" Connects"). Mosquitoes were responsible for many deaths. Illnesses such as yellow fever and malaria made "many of the work forces go to the hospitals or in some cases die" (""). Mosquitoes carried the diseases and when a person got bit he would give a disease to ...

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and stock prices falling ("Panama Canal"). The appraisal of the company's belongings included: equipment, maps, and the value of the land already excavated ("Historical Overview"). After his company went bankrupt, Lesseps left the Panama Canal to finish his last few years of his already aged life elsewhere ("Actual digging"). Still, much of the credit of the canal belongs to de Lesseps who convinced a skeptical world to attempt this impossible feat ("Panama Canal").

The U.S. government started to show interest in the Panama Canal in 1887 when "the United States sent a regiment under Lieutenant Menocal" (Jones) to survey for a canal site. "In 1907, an American construction crew ...

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