Hi my name is David Levesque, I am 22 years old and currently enrolled at Georgia Gwinnett College as a freshman. I plan to obtain my Bachelor's degree of science in nursing. The goal being one day to be able to travel all over the world and help other people with my acquired education and skillsets. A few of the things I like to occupy my time with is skateboarding, hiking, cooking, and just finding new things to do. With a positive perspective on life and conquering new opportunities, there's no way to go wrong.
The country of Cuba was originally inhabited by the Taino (indigenous people of the Caribbean). In the year of 1492, Christopher Columbus claimed Cuba for Spain. By 1511 the Spanish conquest had begun and established Baracoa among other settlements. In 1762, British admiral George Pocock and Lord Albemarle captured Havana, but to no avail, only one year later Havana was returned to Spain by the Treaty of Paris. The Ten Years War of independence occurred between 1868-78 and ended with a truce between the island of Cuba and Spain with promises of reform (which were mostly never met). Cuba's second war of independence happened in 1895-98, where the US declared war on Spain. In the year 1898 the second independence war was lost to the US and Spain handed all of Cuba over to the US. After three and a half years of being under US command, Cuba gained formal independence in 1902. While many people may instinctually think that Cuban culture mainly r...
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