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Fair Oaks

[ fair ohks ]

noun

  1. Also called Sev·en Pines [sev, -, uh, n , pahynz]. a locality in eastern Virginia, near Richmond: battle 1862.
  2. a town in central California, near Sacramento.


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Example Sentences

There was another fright when the Rebels came back discomfited from Fair Oaks.

He commanded in the battle of Fair Oaks (May 31, 1862), and was so severely wounded as to be incapacitated for several months.

The line of battle as now formed was nearly two miles in the rear of the position of the morning, at Fair Oaks.

General Keyes cut down the trees in front of his line beyond Fair Oaks to form an abattis.

They came up at Fair Oaks in a critical moment, and decided the day in that hard-fought battle.

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