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From about 1764 to 1767, brothers John and Samuel Pringle lived in the hollowed cavity of what type of tree?
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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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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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This Clarksburg printer wrote the classic 1831 book Chronicles of Border Warfare.
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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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Where was Fort Savannah located?
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What Wheeling socialite publicly claimed that Betty Zane's heroic actions at the 1782 Battle of Fort Henry never occurred?
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Tories were settlers who did what?
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Who is generally considered the founder of Charles Town?
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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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