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... that Governor William E. Cameron (pictured) was lampooned in a comic opera after he personally led a failed expedition against illegal dredgers in the Oyster Wars?
...that the Ajacán Mission, a failed attempt by Spanish Jesuit priests to bring Christianity to the Native Americans of the Virginia Peninsula, predated the establishment of Jamestown by about 36 years?
... that Lee Corner in Alexandria, Virginia, includes the homes of U.S. Revolutionary War Officer Light Horse Harry Lee, U.S. Attorney General Charles Lee, and Confederate General Robert E. Lee?
... that upon receiving a personal letter from George Washington appointing him a lieutenant colonel in the Continental Army, Virginia militiaman Angus McDonald declined the offer?

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