Naval construction is proposed as a way to employ workers and generate tax revenue while improving infrastructure. The same investment would include railways in India and Africa. A defended facility at Freetown would connect with a railway across Africa and onward toward Egypt in the proposed scheme. The aim is to move loads inland instead of sending shipping around the Cape of Good Hope. This is a proposed transport network within the counterfactual, rather than a description of an existing route.
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Employment and railway links in the naval infrastructure proposal
Naval works could support employment, while a proposed railway network would connect a defended Freetown base with routes toward Egypt.