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Date November 18, 1903
Participants Panama • United States

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Canal Zone, Panama
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Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
president of United States
Phillippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla
Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla
French engineer
John Hay
John Hay
United States statesman