Question

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 (-5[1])in this city tortured participants (-5[1])in the “Ladder (-5[1])Conspiracy.” 12 guns in a battery protecting this city were collectively nicknamed “the Apostles.” (10[1])Dozens of slaves, including an ancestor of José Antonio Aponte (“uh-PON-tay”), were freed after defending this city from a siege (10[1])led by George Pocock and (-5[1])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 (10[1])to the New World” was the largest city (10[1])planned to be bought in the Ostend Manifesto. (10[2])For 10 (10[1])points, (10[3])name (10[2])this (10[1])city where the (10[1])USS Maine (10[1])sank. (10[3])■END■ (10[6])

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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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y24100%0%17%140.83

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Matthew LehmannWUSTL AChicago A46-5
Kevin FanMcGill AClaremont A51-5
Ashish SubramanianDuke ACornell A54-5
Tracy MirkinFlorida AGeorgia Tech A6810
Jason HongBrown AMaryland A8710
Daniel MaYale AStanford A92-5
Mateo Javier AcostaFlorida BImperial A12510
Collin AceRutgers BNYU A13310
Arjun NageswaranHarvard AToronto A14110
Joel MilesMinnesota ACornell B14110
Amogh KulkarniChicago BOhio State A14310
Justin WytmarIllinois ASouth Carolina A14410
Ricky LiMIT AIndiana A14410
Forrest WeintraubColumbia BMichigan A14410
Karan GurazadaTexas ANorthwestern A14510
Matthew SiffYale BRutgers A14510
Benjamin WeinerMinnesota BHouston A14610
Swapnil GargUC Berkeley AChicago C14910
Tegan KapadiaGeorgia Tech BPenn A15110
Joseph ChambersVirginia AWUSTL B15210
Alex SchmidtPenn State AIowa State A15210
Jonathan TranCornell ADuke A15210
Vaishali SivaJohns Hopkins AUC Berkeley B15310
Andrew ZengStanford AYale A15310
Claire JonesChicago AWUSTL A15310
Dean Ah NowClaremont AMcGill A15310
John John GrogerColumbia ANorth Carolina A15310
Gavin MarkoffVanderbilt APurdue A15310