The 7 Rare Images of Jamat khanas in Uganda

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The Suez Canal 

The Suez Canal was built as a joint enterprise between the French and the Ottoman Empire. Ferdinand de Lesseps, a French diplomat, put the plan into motion in 1854 by using his good relationship with Sa'id Pasha, the viceroy of the Ottoman Empire for Egypt and Sudan.
 

While Britain had originally objected to this feat of engineering, the canal quickly became a critical line of communication. It made the voyage from London to India only four weeks and, by 1874, four-fifths of the trade through the canal was British.
 

Nathan Mayer's eldest son, Lionel de Rothschild (1808–1879), succeeded him as head of the London branch. Under Lionel, the bank financed the British government's 1875 purchase of Egypt's interest in the Suez Canal. The Rothschild bank also funded Cecil Rhodes in the development of the British South Africa Company.
 

Suez Canal... A Historical Evolution
 

​Historians have concluded that the Egyptian Pharaoh Senausert III was the first to think of connecting the Red Sea and the Mediterranean. However, the Suez Canal’s actual history starts with the First Concession; and the other concessions that followed all the way to the digging which started on April 25th, 1859 in the city of “Al-Farama” (now Port Said) where 20 thousand Egyptians participated in the groundbreaking event under the harshest of conditions.

Since its inauguration on the 17th of November 1869, the Canal has witnessed many historical turning points and great developments; most notably the nationalization which restored order and put everything in place as well as its closure after the 1967 war followed by its reopening in June of 1975. The following are highlights of the most important events:

https://www.suezcanal.gov.eg/English/About/SuezCanal/Pages/CanalHistory.aspx

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Britain’s strategic failure: Suez Canal 1854–1882

by George Edward BogdenJuly 16, 2021
 

By the time the Ever Given, a 1,300-foot-long cargo vessel, had been dislodged from its horizontal grounding on a bank of the Suez Canal in late spring, the world had been reminded of the crucial role of a major artery of international trade.  Cutting off traffic within the waterway for six days not only had an immediate effect.  It has also caused a months-long backlog among ports and other delivery mechanisms.  Assumptions about the stability of global supply chains and the efficacy of alternatives have been turned on their head.  

Reliance on the status quo prompted a sclerotic response.  None of these failures of imagination are new.  In fact, the history of this particular naval passage bears out the repeated failure of great powers to assess the significance of transformations in global supply lines and their impact on relations among great powers.
 

Since the Suez Canal’s inception, its control has been the subject of considerable strategic wrangling, as well as the impetus for intrigue.  Yet the political and economic competition in the 19th century surrounding its construction usually constitutes only a footnote in accounts of the later Suez Crisis of 1952.  Examining the imperial clash at the heart of earlier episodes of competition to control the waterway elucidates relevant themes in the evolution of great power competition over vital lines of trade.

The Ottoman Empire considered building a canal at Suez in the 16th century for strategic and commercial reasons, but the project was never completed due to cost and other priorities. In World War I, the Ottomans, by then in decline and under British control of the canal, attempted to attack the Suez Canal in 1915 to cut off British sea lanes to India but were repulsed by British defences.

A Brief History of the Suez Canal

https://www.brookesbell.com/news-and-knowledge/article/a-brief-history-of-the-suez-canal-159493/

Source of the Nile and Pioneers

Jinja City Uganda

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The Rippon Falls. Did you know that John Speke initially thought Rippon Falls was the source of the Nile when he stumbled upon it in 1862 ? Before it was submerged in 1954, the Rippon Falls were the most spectacular water falls in Jinja.

Ripon Falls at the northern end of Lake Victoria in Uganda was formerly considered the source of the river Nile. In 1862–3 John Hanning Speke was the first European to follow the course of the Nile downstream after discovering the falls that his intuition had marked as the source

The water from Ripon Falls falls into a narrow opening and that is where some people believe the River Nile starts. He named the falls after George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon, who was President of the Royal Geographical Society during 1859–60.

The Falls area natural outlet for L. Vic. until in 1954 the construction of Owen Falls Dam was completed, effectively extending L. Victoria and submerging the Falls. The beautiful site was forever lost except for a few black & white photos.

Jinja Railway Bridge

The railway extension began on January 1, 1929, and the bridge was opened for traffic on January 14, 1931. The single spandrel-braced arch measures 260 ft 2-in, and there are two open-deck type spans of 100 ft at the approaches.

The bridge carries a single line of metre gauge track at approximately 69 ft above flood-river level. Underneath this there is a fine 20 ft motor roadway with footways.

As the river bank at the Jinja end of the bridge is but a few feet above high-water level, a high bank had to be thrown up to carry both the railway and the road to the higher ground farther away from the river.

A tall masonry pier was thus necessary to support the shore end of the 100-ft Jinja approach span, as a smaller pier could not be founded with much safety in the newly-constructed embankment.

Unenlightened townsfolk of Jinja may have viewed with indignation the new bridge which the engineers began to put up when they first arrived.

But this was only a temporary footbridge erected to provide easy communication between the two river banks during the construction of the main bridge; the swirling waters made the use of boats dangerous. The cost of the Jinja rail and road bridge came to approximately £70,000.

The Owen Falls

The Owen dam sits across the Nile River between the town of Jinja, in Jinja District and the town of Njeru in Buikwe District,between 1951 and 1954 (the construction time of the Dam)

http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Travel/-/691238/1361126/-/nmrrvs/-/index.html
 

Owen falls dam: Powering Uganda for five decades
 

http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/628782-owen-falls-dam--powering-uganda-for-five-decades.html
 

Owen Falls Dam: Bring back British engineers

Posted Friday, January 6, 2012 | by- Kavuma-Kaggwa
 

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HM Queen Elizabeth II in Uganda, 1954

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Uganda

Identification. Lake Kyoga serves as a rough boundary between Bantu speakers in the south and Nilotic and Central Sudanic language speakers in the north. Despite the division between north and south in political affairs, this linguistic boundary actually runs roughly from northwest to southeast, near the course of the Nile. However, many Ugandans live among people who speak different languages, especially in rural areas. Some sources describe regional variation in terms of physical characteristics, clothing, bodily adornment, and mannerisms, but others claim that those differences are disappearing.

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