Weiler's Life Story

Valeriano Weiler was sent to Cuba in 1863 where he developed a reputation for being the only colonial officer who wouldn't drink alcohol. Spanish officers in this time had a habit of drinking nothing but enormous quantities of cold champagne instead of water because they thought it kept them safe from malaria. He figured it out like I'm gonna stay sober and I'm gonna kill a whole bunch of fucking people. That's why he was so good at army stuff. In 1868 the Cubans decide they're not happy with Spanish rule and they have a revolution. So Weiler gets transferred over to a Spanish embassy in Washington DC where he caught the tail end of the civil war and picked up some really