 Massaya is situated between two extensive natural harbours, capable of giving shelter to the largest fleets, safe from attack. The state of Nicaragua can become, better than Constantinople, the necessary route for the great commerce of the world, for...  The Past and the Present - Page 40by Samuel Bulkley Ruggles - 1864 - 45 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Napoleon III (Emperor of the French) - Canale Napoleone de Nicaragua - 1846 - 90 pages
...extensive natural harbours, capable of giving shelter to the largest fleets, safe from attack. The state of Nicaragua can become, better than Constantinople,...necessary route for the great commerce of the world, for it is, for the United States, the shortest road to China and the East Indies, and for England and... | |
 | Napoleon III (Emperor of the French) - Canale Napoleone de Nicaragua - 1846 - 102 pages
...extensive natural harbours, capable of giving shelter to the largest fleets, safe from attack. The state of Nicaragua can become, better than Constantinople,...necessary route for the great commerce of the world, for it is, for the United States, the shortest road to China and the East Indies, and for England and... | |
 | Bedford Pim - Central America - 1863 - 490 pages
...extensive natural harbours, capable of giving shelter to the largest fleets, safe from attack. The state of Nicaragua can become, better than Constantinople,...necessary route for the great commerce of the world ; for it is for the United States the shortest road to China and the East Indies, and for England and... | |
 | J. Arthur Partridge - United States - 1866 - 566 pages
...extensive natural harbours, capable of giving shelter to the largest fleets, safe from attack . " The State of Nicaragua can become, better than Constantinople,...necessary route for the great commerce of the world; for it is for the United States the shortest road to China and the East Indies, and for England and... | |
 | Blanchard Jerrold - France - 1875 - 586 pages
...extensive natural harbours, capable of giving shelter to the largest fleets, safe from attack. The State of Nicaragua can become, better than Constantinople,...necessary route for the great commerce of the world, for it is, for the United States, the shortest road to China and the East Indies, and for England and... | |
 | Engineering - 1880 - 546 pages
...two extensive natural harbors, capable of giving shelter to the largest fleets safe from attack. The State of Nicaragua can become, better than Constantinople,...necessary route for the great commerce of the world ; for it is for the United States the shortest road to China and the East Indies ; and for England... | |
 | Geography - 1881 - 526 pages
...through, she would command, by her central position, the entire coast of North and South America. The state of Nicaragua can become, better than Constantinople,...extraordinary degree of prosperity and grandeur." " France, England, Holland, Russia and the United States have a great commercial interest in the establishment... | |
 | Manjiro Inagaki - Eastern question - 1890 - 302 pages
...extensive natural harbours, capable of giving shelter to the largest fleets, safe from attack. The state of Nicaragua can become, better than Constantinople,...necessary route for the great commerce of the world, for it is for the United States the shortest road to China and the East Indies, and for England and... | |
 | James Dunkerley - History - 2000 - 732 pages
...two extensive natural harbours, capable of giving shelter to the largest fleet, safe from attack. The state of Nicaragua can become, better than Constantinople,...the necessary route for the great commerce of the world.263 Although Bonaparte's efforts to obtain a canal contract in Nicaragua in 1846 had come to... | |
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