HISTORY
THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM
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French and British
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French and Egyptians
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Russians and Persians
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Egyptians and Persians
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Detailed explanation-1: -Between 1859 and 1869, Egyptian khedive Saʿīd Pasha partnered with France’s Suez Canal Company to build the present canal connecting the Mediterranean and Red seas.
Detailed explanation-2: -Suez Canal Nationalized The Suez Canal was built in Egypt under the supervision of French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps and was run jointly by a British-French organization. The man-made waterway-which opened in 1869 after ten years of construction-separates most of Egypt from the Sinai Peninsula.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1854, Ferdinand de Lesseps, the former French consul to Cairo, secured an agreement with the Ottoman governor of Egypt to build a canal 100 miles across the Isthmus of Suez.
Detailed explanation-4: -Its origins date back to ancient Egypt. The Egyptian Pharaoh Senusret III may have built an early canal connecting the Red Sea and the Nile River around 1850 B.C., and according to ancient sources, the Pharaoh Necho II and the Persian conqueror Darius both began and then abandoned work on a similar project.