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The Suez Canal in Egypt, which links the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, was taken over by the British in 1882 and was only reluctantly released 75 years later. The seizure in the 19th century...

Discover what it took to build the Panama Canal, and how this colossal construction project changed the region. — In the 19th century, the California gold rush brought thousands...

The treasure ports of the Spanish Main such as Cartagena, Portobelo, Panama, and Veracruz were used to collect the riches the Spanish Empire had extracted from the Americas, ready for transport in the two annual...

Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475-1519) was a Spanish conquistador who famously discovered the Pacific Ocean after crossing the isthmus of Panama in 1513. An utterly ruthless adventurer and colonizer, Balboa was as much a danger...

A mid-18th century illustration showing the attack of the buccaneer force led by Henry Morgan (c. 1635-1688) on the city of Panama on the Spanish Main in 1671. (From an early edition of Charles Johnson's A General History...

Sir Henry Morgan (c. 1635-1688) was a Welsh privateer who operated in the Caribbean against the Spanish Empire and then became Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica. Morgan was a charismatic and able military leader who masterminded devastating...

The opening of the Suez Canal on 17 November 1869 marked a major transformation in global maritime commerce, linking the Mediterranean and Red Seas through a...

A photograph of the Suez Canal Company Building, Port Said, Egypt. Taken during the First World War (1914-18) Imperial War Museums

An illustrated aerial view of the Suez Canal in Egypt, built between 1859 and 1869. From an 1865 edition of Harper's Weekly magazine.

Men work on the construction of the Erie Canal in Scotia, New York. While the exact date of this photograph is unknown, the construction of the canal took place between 1817 and 1825. The original Erie Canal was 363...