Chinese Plan for Inter-Oceanic Canal Across Nicaragua Echoes British Disaster of Long Ago

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China is planning to build a canal across Nicaragua to rival the Panama canal. The Chinese are not the first to dream of using Nicaragua as a trade route to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The World's History Editor Chris Woolf recalls a disastrous British attempt way back in 1780, at the time of the American Revolution.

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