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Adolphe Godin de Lépinay de Brusly

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proposal for Panama Canal

  • Panama Canal
    In Panama Canal: American intervention

    …to the one proposed by Lépinay but rejected by Lesseps. Included in the proposal was an enormous earthen dam across the Chagres River at Gatún. The dam created what was then the largest artificial lake in the world (Gatún Lake), and at the same time, it brought a considerable part…

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