John M. Hay, Secretary of State, and David Pauncefote, Baron Pauncefote, Ambassador from the United Kingdom, sign the 1901 Treaty of Washington, giving the United states the right to build a canal across the Colombian enclave of Panama.

       [restored 5/28/2022]

Subsequent Events:

6/27/1902                   1/22/1903

Authority:

“Law of the Jungle”
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References:

Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 259.

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