What would it look like if historical figures created Kickstarter videos to fund their exploits? Here is a look at how the fundraising campaign for the Panama Canal might have looked. Note - although French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps was not successful in completing the Panama Canal, his pioneering work is credited in allowing the American team to later achieve success on this monumental civil engineering project.

Fact checking for this video was done using David McCullough's excellent book - The Path Between the Seas. What would the Kickstarter videos of other historical figures look like? Choose a historical figure and let the rest of us know what their Kickstarter campaign would like and sound like.

Panama Canal Expansion Project