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Hampton Roads
noun
- a channel in SE Virginia between the mouth of the James River and Chesapeake Bay: battle between the Monitor and the Virginia 1862.
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Keith Freeman, chairman of the Hampton Roads Tea Party, said he thought the state party was using “a double standard.”
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Down in Virginia there is a great body of salt water known as Hampton Roads.
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On the morning of March 8, 1862, the sun came up beautifully over the broad waters of Hampton Roads.
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During all this time Hampton Roads had been gay with Federal shipping.
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She was steaming round Hampton Roads, waiting to sink any of the boats that were maintaining that blockade.
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As the sun went down, that night, over Hampton Roads, every Union heart in the fleet and in the fortress throbbed with despair.
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