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[–] 3474279? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

It was originally supposed to be given to Egypt.

Oh, I see where you got this idea from, halfway through the second paragraph. However, you seem to have latched onto the country name so hard you didn't notice the rest of the sentence:

he approached Isma'il Pasha, Khedive of Egypt, with a plan to build a huge lighthouse in the form of an ancient Egyptian female fellah or peasant, robed and holding a torch aloft, at the northern entrance to the Suez Canal in Port Said. Sketches and models were made of the proposed work, though it was never erected.