To enable everything to remain equal and because the story of the Panama Canal has already appeared it was considered prudent to write the history of the Suez Canal. As the Suez Canal was the only other canal of any significance in the world, today and when it was built, it is only right to portray its history.
It was during the 1850s that de Lesseps expounded the idea and benefits of canals to the French people. This was then expanded to the rest of Europe when he proposed to plan and build the Suez Canal. Robert Stephenson, who planned the British railway system, considered the idea of a canal that connected the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea quite impracticable.
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