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

ANSWER: boats [or ships or battleships or yachts or slave ships or rafts; accept Mariel boatlift]
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TournamentEditionExact Match?TUHConv. %Power %Neg %Average Buzz
Snowball Fight 21/11/2025Y3100%67%0%63.67
2024 FARSI @ Columbia12/08/2024Y12100%50%8%57.83
2024 FARSI @ Columbia12/08/2024Y9100%78%22%63.33