Christopher Columbus and His Love for Cuba

Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and colonizer who completed four voyages a cross the Atlantic Ocean that opened the New World for conquest and permanent European colonization of the Americas. Columbus had embarked with intent to find and develop a westward route to the Far East, but instead discovered a route to the Americas, which were then unknown to the Old World. Columbus's voyages were the first European expeditions to the Caribbean, Central America, and South America. His Spanish-based expeditions and governance of the colonies he founded were sponsored by Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon, the Catholic Monarchs of the budding Spanish Empire.

In 1511, the main Spanish settlement was established by Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar at Baracoa. Different towns before long pursued, including San Cristobal de la Habana, established in 1515, which later turned into the capital. The local Taíno had to work under the encomienda framework, which looked like a primitive framework in Medieval Europe. Inside a century the indigenous individuals were practically cleared out because of different factors, principally Eurasian irresistible illnesses, to which they had no normal obstruction, irritated by brutal states of the severe pioneer enslavement. In 1529, a measles episode in Cuba executed 66% of those couple of locals who had recently endure smallpox.

On 18 May 1539, Conquistador Hernando de Soto left from Havana at the leader of somewhere in the range of six-hundred devotees into an immense endeavor through the Southeastern United States, beginning at La Florida, looking for gold, fortune, popularity and influence. On 1 September 1548, Dr. Gonzalo Perez de Angulo was named legislative leader of Cuba. He landed in Santiago, Cuba on 4 November 1549 and quickly pronounced the freedom everything being equal. He turned into Cuba's first perpetual senator to live in Havana rather than Santiago, and he fabricated Havana's first church made of brick work. After the French took Havana in 1555, the representative's child, Francisco de Angulo, went to Mexico.

Cuba grew gradually and, not at all like the estate islands of the Caribbean, had a broadened agribusiness. In any case, what was most significant was that the state created as a urbanized society that principally upheld the Spanish provincial realm. By the mid-eighteenth century, its homesteaders held 50,000 slaves, contrasted with 60,000 in Barbados; 300,000 in Virginia, both British provinces; and 450,000 in French Saint-Domingue, which had enormous scale sugar stick ranches.

The Seven Years' War, which ejected in 1754 crosswise over three mainlands, in the end landed in the Spanish Caribbean. Spain's partnership with the French pitched them into direct clash with the British, and in 1762 a British endeavor of five warships and 4,000 soldiers set out from Portsmouth to catch Cuba. The British landed on 6 June, and by August had Havana under attack. At the point when Havana gave up, the chief of naval operations of the British armada, George Pocock and the Commander of the Land Forces George Keppel, the third Earl of Albemarle, entered the city as a vanquishing new senator and assumed responsibility for the entire western piece of the island. The British promptly opened up exchange with their North American and Caribbean settlements, causing a quick change of Cuban culture. They imported nourishment, steeds and different merchandise into the city, just as a great many slaves from West Africa to deal with the immature sugar manors. As the student of history Ada Ferrer has expressed, 'At an essential level, freedom in Saint-Domingue settled in its refusal in Cuba.

Christopher Columbus made clear he loved Cuba’s riches. Columbus first impression of Cuba was well known that he loved it. At the presentation about amazing Cuban woman, the speaker spoke on how Columbus was in love with Cuba’s beaches and the country. Christopher Columbus says, “ never beheld such a beautiful place….” expressing how much he valued the land of Cuba. My question I answered is how Christopher Columbus fell in love with this beautiful land.