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Which daughter of Shawnee chief Cornstalk was married to the renegade European-American Boling Baker?
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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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Braddock's Road is associated with this war.
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What marker rests at the corner of present Grant, Preston, and Tucker counties?
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In 1777, this settler led an ambush in present-day Marshall County that murdered 21 Indians.
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Two Revolutionary War battles occurred at this Wheeling fort.
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Which of the following was NOT among the earliest settlers of the Greenbrier Valley?
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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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Who is generally credited with leading the murderous ambush on Chief Logan's family in 1774?
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Which one of the following was NOT considered an "Indian war" from the 1700s?
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