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Which daughter of Shawnee chief Cornstalk was married to the renegade European-American Boling Baker?
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When the Revolutionary War began, some of the first militia troops arrived in Massachusetts from this place.
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This last colonial governor of Virginia ordered the attack that became the Battle of Point Pleasant.
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Which one of the following forts was NOT built between the location of George Washington's headquarters at Fort Loudoun and Cumberland, Maryland?
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This fort was built in present Summers County in 1774.
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Which of the following was NOT among the earliest settlers of the Greenbrier Valley?
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Which one of the following was NOT an early land company in present-day West Virginia?
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Which of the following was NOT typically considered to be part of a frontier fort?
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This Brooke County settler published the earliest known account of the Lewis & Clark Expedition.
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Who accompanied George Washington on his disastrous mission to warn the French at the beginning of the French & Indian War and later served as a guide for Gen. Braddock in his disastrous campaign early in the war?
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