“22,000 Dead: The Untold Nightmare of the Panama Canal”

Описание: 📜 THE CEMETERY OF THE FRENCH — The Untold Horror Behind the Panama Canal 📜

For centuries, the narrow Isthmus of Panama stood as the world’s greatest obstacle — a 48-mile wall separating two mighty oceans. But when the French arrived in the 1880s, they were not prepared for the real enemy waiting in the jungles.

This is the shocking true story of 22,000 deaths, a failed empire, a revolution backed by the United States, and a medical miracle that changed the world forever.

🌕 Part I: The French Tragedy
A legendary engineer, Ferdinand de Lesseps, arrives to repeat his triumph at Suez. Instead, the workers meet an invisible killer — yellow fever and malaria. Coffins are ordered by the thousands. Entire hillsides are carved out to bury the dead. The project collapses in scandal, leaving behind rusting machines and a “Cemetery of the French.”

🦠 Part II: Roosevelt’s Coup & The Birth of Panama
After the Spanish-American War exposes America’s desperate need for a canal, President Theodore Roosevelt sets his sights on Panama. A political standoff becomes a manufactured revolution, and in 1903, Panama is born with American warships guarding its shores. The U.S. gains control of the Canal Zone “as if it were sovereign.”

🩺 Part III: The War on Mosquitoes
Before building the canal, America must defeat the same killer that destroyed France. Dr. William Gorgas launches an unprecedented campaign to wipe out yellow fever and tame malaria. By 1905, the impossible happens — yellow fever is eradicated from the Canal Zone.

What follows is one of the greatest engineering triumphs in history… but built on a foundation of blood, disease, politics, and sacrifice.

🕯️ This is the story they never told you — a story of courage, death, betrayal, mosquitoes, revolutions, and the canal that reshaped the world.

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