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- Title
"A Wet, Nasty Job": Army Engineers and the Nicaragua Canal Survey of 1929-1931.
- Authors
Brodhead, Michael J.
- Abstract
The article discusses the U.S. government's Nicaragua Canal Survey of 1929 through 1931. An overview of the role that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which was led by the U.S. military officer Lieutenant Colonel Daniel I. Sultan, played in the Nicaragua Canal Survey is provided. The construction of the Panama Canal by the U.S. in the 1910s is discussed. An overview of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' working conditions is also provided.
- Subjects
NICARAGUA Canal (Nicaragua); SURVEYING (Engineering); SULTAN, Daniel I., 1885-1947; UNITED States. Army. Corps of Engineers; HISTORY of the Panama Canal; WORK environment; MILITARY officers; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Federal History, 2012, Issue 4, p111
- ISSN
2163-8144
- Publication type
Article