Cornelius Vanderbilt also considered

In the mid-19th century, French ruler Napoleon III proposed constructing a canal using the San Juan River as an access route to Lake Nicaragua/Cocibolca. Around the same time, American businessman Cornelius Vanderbilt also considered building the canal, but the project was thwarted by civil war and the occupation of Nicaragua by American adventurer William Walker. In the early 1890s, an attempt to construct the Nicaraguan Canal was led by the American company Nicaragua Canal Construction Company. However, as workers cleared the land along the canal’s planned route, many fell ill and were hospitalized due to tropical diseases such as malaria. In 1899, the U.S. government established a Canal Commission to examine two possible routes—one through Nicaragua and the other through Panama. The commission’s report, published in 1901 สล็อตเว็บตรง