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The Suez Canal, connecting the Mediterranean and the Red seas, is inaugurated i ss Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III.
In 1854, Ferdinand de Lesseps, the former French consul to Cairo, secured an ag ild a canal 100 miles across the Isthmus of Suez. An international team of engi he Suez Canal Company was formed and granted the right to operate the canal for
Construction began in April 1859, and at first digging was done by hand with pi r, European workers with dredgers and steam shovels arrived. Labor disputes and
Suez Canal was not completed until 1869–four years behind schedule. On Novem ation. Ferdinand de Lesseps would later attempt, unsuccessfully, to build a can
When it opened, the Suez Canal was only 25 feet deep, 72 feet wide at the botto equently, fewer than 500 ships navigated it in its first full year of operation
the canal soon grew into the one of the world’s most heavily traveled shippi est shareholder in the Suez Canal Company when it bought up the stock of the ne in 1882, Britain invaded Egypt, beginning a long occupation of the country. The lly independent, but Britain reserved rights for the protection of the canal.
After World War II, Egypt pressed for evacuation of British troops from the Sue t Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the canal, hoping to charge tolls that would e River. In response, Israel invaded in late October, and British and French tr al zone. Under pressure from the United Nations, Britain and France withdrew in 1957. That month, Egypt took control of the canal and reopened it to commercial
Ten years later, Egypt shut down the canal again following the Six Day War and r the next eight years, the Suez Canal, which separates the Sinai from the rest
Egyptian and Israeli armies. In 1975, Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat reopen lks with Israel. Today, dozens of ships navigate the canal daily, carrying more
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