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Which daughter of Shawnee chief Cornstalk was married to the renegade European-American Boling Baker?
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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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Point Pleasant was the only battle of this 1774 war.
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What marker rests at the corner of present Grant, Preston, and Tucker counties?
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This fort was built in present Summers County in 1774.
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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, Delaware and Shawnee Indians attacked these two forts in present-day Pendleton County within days in 1758?
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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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James Madison, the "father of the constitution" and future fourth president, married his wife, Dolley Payne, in the Jefferson County home of this person.
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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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