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This head of state allied with the Napist “Governmentals” of the Russian Party against the Constitutionalists of the English Party and the French Party. A legend holds that this leader, like Antoine Parmentier and Frederick the Great, put guards around a shipment of potatoes to stir public interest in the crop. (-5[1])This leader’s government was first recognized by Jean-Pierre Boyer of Haiti. This colleague of Karl (-5[1])Nesselrode helped create Swiss federalism and the Holy Alliance as Alexander I’s foreign minister. (15[1])In (*) revenge for this leader’s imprisonment of the bey of the Mani peninsula, the Mavromichalis (-5[1])clan (10[1])assassinated him outside a church in his capital of Nafplion. (-5[1])This (-5[1])former minister of the Septinsular (-5[1])Republic (-5[1])turned down leadership of the Filiki Eteria before establishing the First Hellenic Republic. For 10 points, name this first head (-5[1])of state (10[1]-5[1])of independent Greece. ■END■ (0[9])

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