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What frontiersman led the band that killed members of Chief Logan's family in 1774?
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In 1777, this settler led an ambush in present-day Marshall County that murdered 21 Indians.
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Which one of the following forts was NOT built between the location of George Washington's headquarters at Fort Loudoun and Cumberland, Maryland?
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This Virginia county once included most of present-day northern West Virginia.
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Which one of the following was NOT a cause of the French & Indian War?
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Who accompanied George Washington on his disastrous mission to warn the French at the beginning of the French & Indian War and later served as a guide for Gen. Braddock in his disastrous campaign early in the war?
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Which one of the following did NOT routinely kill Indians out of retaliation for the deaths of family members?
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When Europeans first arrived, which Indian confederacy laid claim to most of what is now West Virginia?
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Tories were settlers who did what?
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More indirect descendants of George Washington are buried in this county than any other in the nation?
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