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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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