In 1730, Edward Vernon raided this modern-day country's city of Porto Bello.
In 1730, Edward Vernon raided this modern-day country's city of Porto Bello. Guillaume LeTestu and Francis Drake buried comical quantities of treasure in this country after attacking theSpanish Silver Train that ran to its port of Nombre de Dios. William Paterson's disastrous attempt toestablish the colony of Caledonia in this country helped spur the 1707 Act of Union by bankrupting(*) Scotland. CornÃ©lius Herz was accused of bribing Georges Clemenceau in an 1892 scandal named forthis country, stemming from an engineering project here involving Gustave Eiffel and Ferdinand deLesseps. Balboa first spotted the Pacific while standing on the narrow isthmus of this country. For 10points, name this home to a canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
In 1730, Edward Vernon raided this modern-day country's city of Porto Bello.
Republic of Panama [or Republica de Panama]