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To: Eleutheria5; RobbyS

it wasn’t about the canal. Suez has been for millenia (right since old Dynasty times in Pharaonic times) used to carry goods from Europe to Asia — by ship to Suez, then overland to the red sea, then by ship again


127 posted on 10/04/2012 10:53:31 PM PDT by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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To: Cronos

That’s sort of like what we do with Ashdod and Eilat.


129 posted on 10/05/2012 4:33:28 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Cronos

Even before the canal, moving goods via Suez was more efficEsoient than around cape horn.Especially since the English had fleets in the Indina Ocean and in the med.The French were now just renewing their wolrd war with the English. Napoleon had the broader objective of establishing a new capital by displscing the sultan as suzerain in the Near East. The Russians of course had the same goal.


131 posted on 10/06/2012 9:48:14 PM PDT by RobbyS (Christus rex.)
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