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Napoleon approved plans for a tunnelbeneath the English Channel in1802.The British began digging onein 1880.Neither tunnel was completed.Eu-rope has had to wait until the end of the 20thcenrury for the Channel Tunnel.After nearlytwo centuries of dreaming,the island ofGreat Britain is connected to ContinentalEurope for the first time since the Ice Age,when the two joined land masses drifted a-part.On May 6,1994,Britain's Queen Eliza-beth Ⅱ and France's President Mitterrand
Napoleon approved plans for a tunnelbeneath the English Channel in1802.The British began digging onein 1880. Neither tunnel was completed.Eu-rope has had to wait until the end of the 20thcenury for the Channel Tunnel .After nearlytwo centuries of dreaming, the island of Great Britain is connected to Continental Europe for the first time since the Ice Age, when the two joined land masses drifted a-part. On May 6, 1994, Britain's Queen Eliza-beth II and France's President Mitterrand