Gabriel Dorotea Barba led a unit of “loyal Blacks” of this city that fought in the American Revolution. Locals divided this city’s boom-and-bust development into two recurring cycles translated as “dead time” and “time of the fleet.” During the so-called “Year of the Lash,” a government based in this city tortured participants in the “Ladder Conspiracy.” 12 guns in a battery protecting this city were collectively nicknamed “the Apostles.” Dozens of slaves, including an ancestor of José Antonio Aponte (“uh-PON-tay”), were freed after defending this city from a siege led by George Pocock and George Keppel. British forces trapped a Spanish fleet in this city’s harbor during the American theater of the Seven Years’ War, after which this city was returned to Spain for Florida. This “Key to the New World” was the largest city planned to be bought in the Ostend Manifesto. For 10 points, name this city where the USS Maine sank. ■END■
ANSWER: Havana [or La Habana; accept Battalion of Loyal Blacks of Havana] (The Ostend Manifesto envisioned an American purchase of Cuba.)
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