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This enslaved man heroically helped defend Fort Donnally in the Greenbrier Valley during an attack by Shawnee Indians in 1778.
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Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, as well as the southwest corner of Pennsylvania and most of present West Virginia was carved from this Virginia county.
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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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How were many soldiers paid for their service in the French & Indian War?
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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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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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During the French & Indian War, which one of the following was NOT present at the Battle of the Monongahela?
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Of which town is Joseph Tomlinson considered the founder?
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Which of the following was NOT typically considered to be part of a frontier fort?
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