Sentence examples for A canal between from inspiring English sources

Bridgewater also obtained parliamentary powers (1762) to provide a canal between Manchester and Liverpool.

A more direct route was established in 1804 with a canal between the Beresina and Dvina rivers.

In 1697 Peter I the Great built a fort, Petrovsk, to protect workmen attempting to construct a canal between the Volga and Don rivers.

A Nicaraguan congressional committee has approved giving a China-based consortium the concession to build and operate a canal between the Pacific and Caribbean, fast-tracking the huge development project despite objections from the opposition.

In 1836, the Board of Canal Commissioners responsible for raising money to construct a canal between the Mississippi River basin and the Great Lakes organized a public auction to sell Chicago's first city lots.

Russia is also ready to become a security guard to "protect against possible provocations" for the Chinese-led project of a canal between the Pacific and the Atlantic across Nicaragua.

In 1825 an application had been made to Parliament for an Act to allow the construction of a ship canal between the mouth of the River Dee and Manchester at a cost of £1 million, but "the necessary forms not having been observed", it did not become law.

In 1766 the Duke gained a fourth act of parliament for a branch canal between Sale Moor and Stockport which was to follow the valley of the Mersey.

Having visited the Canal du Midi in France and watched the construction of the Sankey Canal in England, the duke's solution to these problems was to build an underground canal at Worsley, connected to a surface canal between Worsley and Salford.

Embarking on a costly program of construction and conquest, in 608 he built a great canal between the rice-producing areas in the south and the Beijing area in the north.

A deep canal between the Mediterranean and Red seas was first suggested about 800 ce by the caliph Hārūn al-Rashīd, but it was not until 1869 that the French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps oversaw the completion of the Suez Canal connecting the two seas.