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1
This enslaved man heroically helped defend Fort Donnally in the Greenbrier Valley during an attack by Shawnee Indians in 1778.
2
When the Revolutionary War began, some of the first militia troops arrived in Massachusetts from this place.
3
How were many soldiers paid for their service in the French & Indian War?
4
Indian leader Captain Bull settled in this present-day West Virginia county in the late 1760s.
5
This fort was built in present Summers County in 1774.
6
Where was Fort Savannah located?
7
Who is considered the founder of Wheeling
8
From which direction did most Indian attacks occur during the frontier period?
9
When Europeans first arrived, which Indian confederacy laid claim to most of what is now West Virginia?
10
Who bought up much of the area in and around Charleston in the late 1700s from John Dickinson and George Clendenin?

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