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Prior to the speech he had instructed a select team of Egyptian commandos to occupy the offices of the British- and French-owned Suez Canal the moment they heard him speak the name of Ferdinand de Lesseps, the Frenchman who won the initial concession for building the Canal in 1855.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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Prior to the speech he had instructed a select team of Egyptian commandos to occupy the offices of the British- and French-owned Suez Canal the moment they heard him speak the name of Ferdinand de Lesseps, the Frenchman who won the initial concession for building the Canal in 1855.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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He had the word of Ferdinand de Lesseps that the British would observe the Canal’s neutrality.
Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007
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He had the word of Ferdinand de Lesseps that the British would observe the Canal’s neutrality.
Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007
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He had the word of Ferdinand de Lesseps that the British would observe the Canal’s neutrality.
Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007
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On December 24, demonstrators dynamited the eighty-foot statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps, the Frenchman who had completed the construction of the canal in 1869.50
Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011
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On December 24, demonstrators dynamited the eighty-foot statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps, the Frenchman who had completed the construction of the canal in 1869.50
Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011
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These Lessepsian migrants, named after Ferdinand de Lesseps, the French diplomat responsible for the construction of the canal, show no signs of reduced genetic diversity in their new range, indicating that individuals regularly cross the canal.
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It was the handiwork of Ferdinand de Lesseps, a Frenchman ever after celebrated as “the Great Engineer.”
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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It was the handiwork of Ferdinand de Lesseps, a Frenchman ever after celebrated as “the Great Engineer.”
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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