Transcript Slide 1
Ferdinand de Lesseps and the Suez Canal • The 1956 Suez Crisis – Egypt Appropriates the Canal • Gamal Nasser and Egyptian Nationalism • An 80 foot statue of de Lesseps is dynamited and destroyed 1832 – de Lesseps Dream Begins • Quarantine in Tunis • Reading of Description de l’ Egypte (1798) Thomas Waghorn • British East India Company • Mail delivery from London to India • “He opened the route. We followed.”