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Hamilton Fish helped resolve a diplomatic crisis named for one of these things during the Ten Years’ War (-5[1])between (15[1])the U.S, U.K, and (-5[2])Spain. The U.S. blamed an incident involving a French-owned one of these things named La (10[1])Coubre on Fidel Castro. 82 revolutionaries used another of (10[1])these things (15[2])named the Granma (15[5])during the Cuban (15[2])Revolution. (15[1])The (15[1])term (*) “Marielito” (15[1])referred to Cubans who used these things in the 1980s in a namesake “lift.” (10[1])An 1839 (10[1])Supreme Court case resulted from Joseph Cinque’s slave rebellion on one of these things off the coast of Cuba. (10[2])For 10 points, name these vehicles, one of (10[1])which (10[1])named the USS Maine sank in Havana Harbor. ■END■

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