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Which Indian tribe fought at the 1774 Battle of Point Pleasant?
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After her husband's death at the 1774 Battle of Point Pleasant, this woman became a frontier scout, relaying messages among forts?
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Hugh Stephenson formed this military unit in response to George Washington's call for troops at the beginning of the Revolutionary War.
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This Clarksburg printer wrote the classic 1831 book Chronicles of Border Warfare.
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This battle in northwestern Ohio ended violent conflicts between Indians and settlers in present-day West Virginia.
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Fort Maidstone, the northernmost of our French & Indian War fortifications, was built in which present-day county?
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Which one of the following was NOT considered an "Indian war" from the 1700s?
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Who is generally considered the founder of Martinsburg?
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George Washington was this age when he became a surveyor in what is now West Virginia?
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The murder of this person's family sent him on a violent spree in which he killed Tegunteh, who was peacefully negotiating the 1789 Treaty of Fort Harmar. Afterward, he became a fugitive from the law.
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