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How were many soldiers paid for their service in the French & Indian War?
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What marker rests at the corner of present Grant, Preston, and Tucker counties?
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In 1777, this settler led an ambush in present-day Marshall County that murdered 21 Indians.
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Shawnee Chief Cornstalk and his son Elinipsico were murdered at this Point Pleasant fort in 1777.
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This Virginia county once included most of present-day northern West Virginia.
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During the French & Indian War, which one of the following was NOT present at the Battle of the Monongahela?
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Nonhelema, known by settlers as the "Grenadier Squaw," was the sister of which Indian leader?
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This Seneca Indian's military efforts led to the near complete abandonment of the Greenbrier and Monongahela valleys.
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Who is generally considered the founder of Charles Town?
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George Washington was this age when he became a surveyor in what is now West Virginia?
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