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Braddock's Road is associated with this war.
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This Clarksburg printer wrote the classic 1831 book Chronicles of Border Warfare.
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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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The barracks of this fort in Mineral County comprise the only known military structure still standing in present-day West Virginia from the French & Indian War period.
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Construction of this fort marked the beginning of the city of Charleston?
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At the end of the French & Indian War, which one of the following was NOT attacked during Pontiac's Rebellion?
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Which of the following was NOT a treaty in which Indians gave away their claims to land in present West Virginia?
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Which one of the following was NOT considered an "Indian war" from the 1700s?
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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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