French Atlantic Cable Company
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french-atlantic-cable-company-233-332620
title:
French Atlantic Cable Company
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The French Atlantic Cable Company was established in 1869 to install a transatlantic telegraph cable independent of British territories. The cable ran 2,584 miles from Brest to Saint Pierre Island off the coast of Newfoundland, then a second leg ran 749 miles to land at Duxbury, Massachusetts, near Boston. The company also installed a second cable from Salcombe, on the south west coast of England, to the coast of Brittany, thereby bypassing traffic around British-owned cables across the English
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Western European telecommunications business
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Atlantic_Cable_Company
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2022-01-02T21:53:11Z
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