Guantanamo Bay Naval Base area surrounding Guantanamo bay was originally inhabited by the Taíno people. On 30 April 1494, Christopher Columbus, on his second voyage, arrived and spent the night. The place where Columbus landed is now known as Fisherman's Point. Columbus declared the bay "Puerto Grande". The bay and surrounding areas came under British control during the War of Jenkins' Ear. Prior to British occupation, the bay was referred to as "Walthenham Harbor". The British renamed the bay "Cumberland Bay". The British retreated from the area after a failed attempt to march to Santiago de Cuba. During the Spanish–American War, the U.S. fleet
Canadian detainees at Guantanamo Bay half a dozen men who had lived in Canada, either as refugees, candidates for citizenship, or illegal immigrants. On April 25, 2011, the whistleblower site WikiLeaks started publishing documents they called detainee assessment briefs. These previously unpublished documents had been drafted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo, whereas all the previously published documents from Guantanamo had been drafted by the Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants of the Office of Military Commissions. Sixteen captives secret files were not available to wikileaks, including Abdurahman Khadr's. Canadian detainees at Guantanamo Bay The United States Department of Defense acknowledges