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RE: [DL] South o' the Border
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ashman, Joel [mailto:jea2@c-cor.com]
> Subject: [DL] South o' the Border
>
> For anyone who has the SotB sourcebook...
>
> Is there any discussion about the Panama Canal? By the late
> 1870's, France was engaged in contruction of a canal through
> the Columbian isthmus, what is now Panama.
>
> I wanted to know if any of this made it in to the WW. If is
> did, I'll pick up SotB.
>
We didn't begin the current canal until 1903 (completed in 1914). The
French efforts ultimately failed.
http://www.pananet.com/pancanal/public/history/history1.htm
http://www.maui.com/~twright/panama/pan004a.htm
http://www.sinfo.net/pcmuseum/history.html
Jim