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Recollections of Forty years Ferdinand de Lesseps Author (1887)
~EN PB NWISBN: 9783337267193 bzw. 333726719X, vermutlich in Englisch, Bod Third Party Titles, Taschenbuch, neu.
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ...the attention of all the great men who have reigned or been for a time in Egypt: Sesostris, Alexander, Cajsar, the Arab conqueror Amrou, Napoleon I., and Mohammed Ali. A canal communicating by way of the Nile with the two seas existed in ancient times--but for how long we know not--under the old Egyptian dynasties; during a second period of 445 years, from the first successors of Alexander and the Eoman conquest until the fourth century before the Hegira, and finally for a period of 130 years after the Arab conquest. ' Napoleon, directly he arrived in Egypt, appointed a commission of engineers to ascertain whether it would not be possible to re-establish and to perfect this mode of communication. The question Avas decided in the affirmative, and when the learned M. Lepere handed him the report, he said: The work is great, and though I shall not now be able to accomplish it, the Turkish Government will some day, perhaps, reap the glory of carrying it out. ' The time has come to realise Napoleon's prediction. The piercing of the Isthmus of Suez is certainly an enterprise destined to contribute more than any other to the maintenance of the Ottoman Empire, and to demonstrate to those who announced its approaching ruin that it still has a fruitful existence before it, and that it is capable of adding a brilliant page the more to the history of human civilisation. 'Why is it that the Governments and people of the West are at the present moment coalesced to maintain the Sultan in the possession of Constantinople? and why does the Power which has threatened to deprive him of it meet with such opposition if it be not that the passage from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea is of such importance that the European Power which became mistress of...
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ...the attention of all the great men who have reigned or been for a time in Egypt: Sesostris, Alexander, Cajsar, the Arab conqueror Amrou, Napoleon I., and Mohammed Ali. A canal communicating by way of the Nile with the two seas existed in ancient times--but for how long we know not--under the old Egyptian dynasties; during a second period of 445 years, from the first successors of Alexander and the Eoman conquest until the fourth century before the Hegira, and finally for a period of 130 years after the Arab conquest. ' Napoleon, directly he arrived in Egypt, appointed a commission of engineers to ascertain whether it would not be possible to re-establish and to perfect this mode of communication. The question Avas decided in the affirmative, and when the learned M. Lepere handed him the report, he said: The work is great, and though I shall not now be able to accomplish it, the Turkish Government will some day, perhaps, reap the glory of carrying it out. ' The time has come to realise Napoleon's prediction. The piercing of the Isthmus of Suez is certainly an enterprise destined to contribute more than any other to the maintenance of the Ottoman Empire, and to demonstrate to those who announced its approaching ruin that it still has a fruitful existence before it, and that it is capable of adding a brilliant page the more to the history of human civilisation. 'Why is it that the Governments and people of the West are at the present moment coalesced to maintain the Sultan in the possession of Constantinople? and why does the Power which has threatened to deprive him of it meet with such opposition if it be not that the passage from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea is of such importance that the European Power which became mistress of...
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Recollections of Forty years als von Ferdinand De Lesseps, Coulson Bell Pitman
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Recollections of Forty years ab 26.9 EURO Vol. 1, Recollections of Forty years ab 26.9 EURO Vol. 1.
Recollections of Forty years ab 26.9 EURO Vol. 1, Recollections of Forty years ab 26.9 EURO Vol. 1.
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Recollections of Forty years: Vol. 1 (2017)
EN PB NWISBN: 9783337267193 bzw. 333726719X, in Englisch, 368 Seiten, hansebooks, Taschenbuch, neu.
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