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The following post by IP User 24.187.158.113 was moved from the article: "Left out of the career was the fact that President Grant sent him to survey the area of Central America that would be used in the decision as to where the Panama Canal would be built". -- DavidCane ( talk) 22:27, 13 February 2019 (UTC) reply