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Which daughter of Shawnee chief Cornstalk was married to the renegade European-American Boling Baker?
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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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A member of this pioneering family in present-day central West Virginia supposedly wrote the fiddle tune "Shelvin' Rock" while sheltering from Indians.
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In 1777, this settler led an ambush in present-day Marshall County that murdered 21 Indians.
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Which one of the following forts was NOT built between the location of George Washington's headquarters at Fort Loudoun and Cumberland, Maryland?
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Shawnee Chief Cornstalk and his son Elinipsico were murdered at this Point Pleasant fort in 1777.
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This Virginia county once included most of present-day northern West Virginia.
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What was the goal of Andrew Lewis's disastrous Sandy Creek Expedition in 1756?
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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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Vandalia was a failed attempt at what?
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