Person1805 – 1894
Ferdinand de Lesseps
French diplomat and entrepreneur who won the concession for the Suez Canal from Egypt and opened it in 1869
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The Suez Canal linking the Mediterranean and the Red Sea opened, greatly shortening the sea route from Europe to Asia.
Themes this person appears in
- Imperialism and the Partition of the World1839 – 1914
From the Tanzimat to Sarajevo — seventy-five years in which the powers carved up West Asia, India, Southeast Asia, Africa and the Pacific, and the peoples there answered with reform and resistance