Round 3: Tossup 6

A history of a conflict in this country by Thomas Gordon was published the same year he became an officer under its Wittelsbach king, Otto I. (-5[1])A (15[1])war (15[1])in (15[1])this country initiated by (15[1])a non-Quaker Society of Friends inspired a painting by Eugène Delacroix that depicts (-5[1])the (15[1])Chios Massacre. (15[1])During a (15[1])conflict in this country, an Edward Codrington-led fleet defeated Tahir (*) Pasha at the Battle of Navarino. The Elgin Marbles (10[1])were taken from a building in this country which (10[1])an explosion damaged when the Ottoman empire used it to store munitions. (10[2]-5[1])For 10 points, (10[1])Philhellenists admired the ancient culture of what country’s cities (10[1])of Thebes and Athens? ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

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