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.”