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One of the great things about being a history teacher is that there is always something more for me to learn. After all, I don't know everything about every place. It is therefore quite likely that from time to time I will stumble across new information that might even serve to recast my view of the past or give me a new understanding of some event or region.

Take the Caribbean, for example, which Americans often ignore historically following Columbus' arrival in the New World and the European colonization of North and South America.

Over the last few months, I've been feeding my recently developed passion for literature about the British Navy. One of the novels I picked up dealt with the American Revolution and the strategic naval importance of the Caribbean in that war. Frankly, I was bowled over -- my mind has pictured battles along the American coast or taken into British waters by men like the intrepid John Paul Jones. It had never entered my imagination that the islands of the Caribbean had an incredible strategic importance for the British, the Americans, and the French, as well as the Spanish. Wow!

Now there are many reasons to visit the Caribbean -- sunny beaches and a vibrant culture among them. But friends, don't miss the history -- it is fascinating!

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