Who wanted to create a railroad from cape town to cairo?
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Who wanted to create a railroad from cape town to cairo originally? Who was a politician who wanted to create a railroad from cape town to cairo?
Edwin Arnold
Cecil John Rhodes
Cape to Cairo Railway
Who wanted to create a railroad from cape town to cairo?
Cape to Cairo Railway Cape to Cairo Road Cecil Rhodes Cairo, Illinois The Rhodes Colossus Percy Girouard Fashoda Incident Shanty town Blue Train (South Africa) Rail transport in South Africa
The Cape to <b>Cairo Railway</b> is an uncompleted project to cross Africa from south 
to north by <b>rail</b>. ... Construction started from <b>Cape Town</b> and went parallel to the 
Great North Road to Kimberley, through a part of ... The Tanzania Railways 
Corporation is also <b>building</b> a standard gauge line from Dar es Salaam towards 
Rwanda. ... announced plans for a telegraph line and <b>railroad</b> from <b>Cape Town</b> to <b>Cairo</b>. 
Map showing almost complete British control of the Cape to <b>Cairo</b> route, 1914. 
British control. The Cape to <b>Cairo</b> Road or Pan-African Highway, sometimes 
called the Great North Road in ... The road would <b>create</b> cohesion between the 
British colonies of Africa, it was&nbsp;... Cecil John Rhodes PC (5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) was a British 
businessman, mining ... He also put much effort towards his vision of a <b>Cape</b> to 
<b>Cairo Railway</b> through British territory. ... Rhodes <b>wanted</b> to <b>make the</b> British 
Empire a superpower in which all of the British-dominated countries in the empire
, including&nbsp;... <b>Cairo</b> is the southernmost <b>city</b> in the U.S. state of Illinois, and is the county seat of 
Alexander ... The <b>city</b> is part of the <b>Cape</b> Girardeau–Jackson, MO–IL Metropolitan 
... A second and successful effort to <b>establish</b> a <b>town</b> was made by the <b>Cairo City</b> 
... After the Civil War, the <b>city</b> became a hub for <b>railroad</b> shipping in the region,&nbsp;... Striding from <b>Cape Town</b> to <b>Cairo</b> Punch, 10 December 1892. Colossus of 
Rhodes, imagined in a 16th-century engraving by Martin Heemskerck, part of his 
series of the Seven Wonders of the World. The Rhodes Colossus is an iconic 
editorial cartoon of the Scramble for Africa period, part of the ... Not logged in; 
Talk &middot; Contributions &middot; <b>Create</b> account &middot; Log in&nbsp;... Sir Édouard Percy Cranwill Girouard, KCMG, DSO (26 January 1867 – 26 
September 1932) ... Girouad&#39;s family <b>wanted</b> him to stay in Canada, but Girouard 
<b>wanted</b> to see ... dream of <b>building</b> the Cape to <b>Cairo Railway</b> that would run from 
<b>Cape Town</b> ... In turn, the &quot;Cape to <b>Cairo railroad</b>&quot; would be the device for the 
British&nbsp;... The Fashoda Incident was the climax of imperial territorial disputes between 
Britain and France in East Africa, occurring in 1898. A French expedition to 
Fashoda on the White Nile river <b>sought</b> to gain control ... If one draws a line from 
<b>Cape Town</b> to <b>Cairo</b> (Rhodes&#39; dream) and another line from Dakar to French 
Somaliland&nbsp;... A shanty town or squatter area is a settlement of improvised <b>building</b> that is 
known as shanties ... of cities, in public parks, or near <b>railroad</b> tracks, rivers, 
lagoons or city trash dump sites. ... The above shanty town image is from Ezbet Al 
Nakhl, in <b>Cairo</b>, Egypt, where garbage is ... A shanty town near <b>Cape Town</b>, 
South Africa. The Blue <b>Train</b> travels an approximately 1,600-kilometre (990 mi) journey in 
South Africa between Pretoria and <b>Cape Town</b>. ... As of 2007 the only regular 
route in operation was Pretoria-<b>Cape Town</b>; however special package tours were 
<b>offered</b> to Durban or the ... Not logged in; Talk &middot; Contributions &middot; <b>Create</b> account &middot; 
Log in&nbsp;... A Metrorail <b>train</b> pulling out of Kalk Bay station in <b>Cape Town</b>. <b>Rail</b> transport in 
South Africa is an important element of the country&#39;s transport infrastructure. ... 
<b>Cape Town</b> had already started <b>building</b> a 72-kilometre (45 mi) line, track gauge 
... have a <b>rail</b> system that would run from the &quot;Cape to <b>Cairo</b>&quot;, would never 
materialise.
Cecil Rhodes
Cape to Cairo Railway