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This enslaved man heroically helped defend Fort Donnally in the Greenbrier Valley during an attack by Shawnee Indians in 1778.
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This Greenbrier County fort builder served as a guide and chief scout for Andrew Lewis on the march to the Battle of Point Pleasant.
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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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About 1788, where did Daniel Boone first settle in present-day West Virginia?
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This Clarksburg printer wrote the classic 1831 book Chronicles of Border Warfare.
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Two Revolutionary War battles occurred at this Wheeling fort.
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Which one of the following was NOT a cause of the French & Indian War?
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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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What Wheeling socialite publicly claimed that Betty Zane's heroic actions at the 1782 Battle of Fort Henry never occurred?
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Vandalia was a failed attempt at what?
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