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Robert E. Lee

1807-1870 Robert E. Lee, who was born on January 19, 1807, was one of the most famous generals in the 1860's civil war. As the son of Harry Lee, and a native virginian, he was educated at the U.S Military Academy. Receiving a comission as second lieutenant in the engineers, he graduated second in his class in 1829. In 1836, he became first lieutenant, and in 1838, he became captain. Lee denied the request of President Abraham Lincoln offering him the field command of the Union forces.Three days after Virginia seceded from the Union, he submitted his resignation from the U.S. Army on April 20. He became commander in chief of the military and naval forces of Virginia on April 23. He was military adviser to Jefferson Davis,president of the Confederate States of America for a year and was then placed in command of the army in northern Virginia. Lee was made commander in chief of all Confederate armies in February 1865; the war was virtually ended by his surrender to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House two months later. Antietam, Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg, and Gettysburg were his great battles. Now Washington and Lee University, he accepted the presidency of Washington College, in the fall of 1865; within a few years it had become an outstanding institution. On October 12, 1870 he died there. The Robert E. Lee Memorial, his antebellum home is now known as Arlington House,and is a national memorial. Lee's citizenship was restored posthumously by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1975.

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Cuba
In the year of 1492, a man named Christopher Columbus landed in Cuba in hope that it was India. After the European discovery of the island island of Cuba by Christopher COLUMBUS in 1492 and following its development as a Spanish colony ofduring the next several centuries ,the native American Indian population of Cuba began to decline. Havana became the launching point for the annual treasure fleets bound for Spain from Mexico and Peru and large numbers of African slaves were imported to work the coffee and sugar plantations, and Spanish rule, marked initially by neglect, became increasingly repressive, provoking an independence movement and occasional rebellions that were harshly suppressed. Something that finally overthrew Spanish rule was the US intervention during the Spanish-American War in 1898. Which was granted in 1902 after a three-year transition period, the subsequent Treaty of Paris established Cuban independence. Fidel Castro's iron rule held the subsequent regime together for nearly five decades; he led a rebel army to victory in 1959. In favor of his younger brother Raul CASTRO, he stepped down as president in February 2008. With Soviet support Cuba's Communist revolution, was exported throughout Latin America and Africa during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Following the withdrawal of former Soviet subsidies, worth $4 billion to $6 billion annually, the country is now slowly recovering from a severe economic downturn in 1990. Since 1961 Cuba portrays its difficulties as the result of the US embargo in place.Some continuing problems are Illicit migration to the US - using homemade rafts, alien smugglers, air flights, or via the southwest border. In fiscal year 2006, the US Coast Guard intercepted 2,864 individuals attempting to cross the Straits of Florida.

July 2010
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