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There were several men who organised and engineered the building of the Panama Canal. Ferdinand De Lesseps, a diplomat from France, had organised the building of the Suez Canal. After the Suez, De Lesseps had an inspiration for the Panama Canal. The Panama was much more complicated than the Suez; the terrain is much more mountainous so eventually the work was abandoned. When the U.S started working on the Canal in 1904 the chief engineer was a man named John Wallace, but, due to immediate struggles of bad equipment, yellow fever, and malaria, he resigned after a year. John Stevens took over as head engineer. Stevens had organised many western U.S railroads. When Stevens got down to Panama he found “about as discouraging a proposition

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