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A key approach to this city called Grant’s Pass was controlled by Fort Powell. In May 1865, 300 people were killed in this city by a huge magazine explosion at Marshall’s Warehouse. The last slave ship to arrive in the US, the Clotilda, brought Cudjo Lewis and the founders of this city’s historic community of Africatown. In this city, Franklin Buchanan supervised the defense of Forts Gaines and Morgan on Dauphin Island and the (emphasize) building of the submarine Hunley. After the USS Tecumseh was sunk near this blockade-running center, an admiral ordered his three (10[1]-5[1])remaining ironclads to make a mad dash through a minefield, popularizing the phrase “Damn the (-5[1])torpedoes!” For 10 points, David Farragut won an 1864 battle in what Alabama seaport’s namesake (10[1])bay? (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: Mobile, Alabama [accept Mobile Bay]
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