It is this same vague, indefinable fear that makes her now oppose the French project of a canal across the isthmus of Suez -- a work so imperatively demanded in the present advanced state of ...

The Isthmus of Suez, once the curse of the fellahs, may ere long become a blessing to them ; for assuredly there is a rich mercantile harvest in store for Egypt since the Eastern portal has been ...

The Isthmus of Suez and the Strait of Malacca have been key locations for civilisations to control trade and movement, ...

Look at the chart showing the track of the yacht Sunbeam as it turns and zig-zags from Portsmouth to the Isthmus of Suez, then goes down the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. View Full Article in ...

For 75 years ago Khedive Ismail Pasha had defrayed the costs of his irrepressible gallantries by selling a European company the right to construct and operate the canal across the Isthmus of Suez.

THE canal proposed by M. de Lesseps, and intended to pierce the Isthmus of Panama is in many respects a bolder enterprise even than the Suez Canal. The engineering difficulties are far greater ...

Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.

It cuts through the narrow Isthmus of Corinth and “separates the ... but it was not until the late 1890s that it was finally completed - the Suez Canal, meanwhile, was completed in 1869.

In a move to reshape global maritime trade Thailand has unveiled plans for a $28 billion (£22bn) land bridge across its southern isthmus ... significance of the Suez Canal.

In 2022, an average of 1,084 ships crossed this strategic isthmus each month ... One Orpheus collided with a floating bridge in the Suez Canal's eastern lane on Wednesday. Traffic in this waterway ...

Ferdinand de Lesseps, builder of the Suez Canal, led the project ... By December 1905, yellow fever had been officially eradicated on the Isthmus. In November, 1906, Roosevelt himself visited ...