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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 caused an international furore every bit as damaging...

Canal boats on the North River (now referred to as the Hudson River) in New York, illustration by William L. Stone and Cadwallader D. Colden, issued in 1825 to be presented to the Mayor of New York City to celebrate the completion of the...

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 direct sea-level canal across the Isthmus of Suez. Constructed between 1859 and...

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 miles (584 km) in length...

A map of Erie Canal c. 1840. The canal, constructed between 1817 and 1825, stretches 363 miles (584 km) from the Hudson River at Albany, New York, to Lake Erie at Buffalo, New York.

A photograph showing the British battleship HMS Howe and a local felucca on the Suez Canal, Egypt. Taken during the Second World War (1939-45). Imperial War Museums

A c. 1730 oil on canvas painting, Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice, by the Italian artist Canaletto (1697-1768). (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston)

An 1870 oil on canvas, Barges on the Canal Saint-Martin, by Alfred Sisley (1839-1899), the Franco-British impressionist painter. (Oskar Reinhart Foundation, Winterthur, Switzerland)