William Taylor had an extraordinary life and spent seven years working on the canal. He is buried with his wife Rita in ...

and the future neutrality of the Panama Canal. Former U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt liked to boast “I took Panama,” a reference to his role in the country’s breakaway from Colombia and ...

President Theodore Roosevelt's words resonate as a call to action: "By far the most important action I took in foreign affairs during the time I was President was related to the Panama Canal." ...

President Theodore Roosevelt provided strategic military ... of the young republic—the territory that would become the Panama Canal Zone. Read More: Donald Trump Still Wants to Take Control ...

The popular telling of the canal’s origin is a story of America’s technical prowess, of man’s triumph over nature and of the cunning of figures like Theodore Roosevelt, who supported Panama ...

President Trump wants Panama to return its namesake canal to the U.S. Panama’s ... In the age of gunboat diplomacy with former Rough Rider Theodore Roosevelt as president, the U.S. engineered ...

Failing to reach terms with Colombia to build a US canal, then US President Theodore Roosevelt sent gunships to Panama’s Atlantic and Pacific coasts to support calls for Panamanian independence.

The Panama Canal has become a major – and unexpected ... to construct and operate the canal in 1903 under President Theodore Roosevelt, who in his biography called it "by far the most ...

John Nemmers, curator of the Panama Canal Museum Collection at the University of Florida, confirmed in an email to Check Your Fact that President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Hay-Bunau-Varilla ...