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After her husband's death at the 1774 Battle of Point Pleasant, this woman became a frontier scout, relaying messages among forts?
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How were many soldiers paid for their service in the French & Indian War?
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Indian leader Captain Bull settled in this present-day West Virginia county in the late 1760s.
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Who led the first permanent settlement of Charleston?
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In 1777, this settler led an ambush in present-day Marshall County that murdered 21 Indians.
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Where was the largest battle in Virginia during the French & Indian War?
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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 one of the following was NOT one of West Virginia's first settlers?
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Of which town is Joseph Tomlinson considered the founder?
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During the French & Indian War, what settler was famously captured by Shawnee and, after living with them, courageously escaped on foot along the Kanawha and New rivers?
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