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When the Revolutionary War began, some of the first militia troops arrived in Massachusetts from this place.
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Hugh Stephenson formed this military unit in response to George Washington's call for troops at the beginning of the Revolutionary War.
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Braddock's Road is associated with this war.
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This fort was built in present Summers County in 1774.
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What finally ended threats to present-day West 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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The Eckerlin brothers were among the first White settlers of this county?
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This Harrison County congressman was President James Madison's brother-in-law and one of the first government officials to press for greater rights for Western Virginia.
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Pontiac started his rebellion against European-American settlements as a result of what event?
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Who bought up much of the area in and around Charleston in the late 1700s from John Dickinson and George Clendenin?
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