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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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This Ohio River county was named for the governor of Virginia who owned most of the land there.
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Who led the first permanent settlement of Charleston?
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This last colonial governor of Virginia ordered the attack that became the Battle of Point Pleasant.
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Point Pleasant was the only battle of this 1774 war.
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Which one of the following was NOT one of West Virginia's first settlers?
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This Delaware chief led two deadly attacks on forts in present-day Pendleton County during the French & Indian War.
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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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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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