Fort Monroe

American  

noun

1. a fort at the entrance to Hampton Roads, in SE Virginia.

2. a military reservation in SE Virginia, SE of Hampton at Old Point Comfort.

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Example Sentences

In encampments such as Fort Monroe, Union forces in the Civil War were joined by thousands of African-Americans seeking liberty and protection.

From The Wall Street Journal

On a mid-April day in 1863, hundreds of African Americans, hoping for better lives, boarded the Ocean Ranger at Fort Monroe in Virginia.

From Washington Post

In February 1862, Bell and others were released back to Union forces in a prisoner exchange at Fort Monroe in Hampton, Va. Little is known about what happened to him later.

From Washington Post

The draft legislation would authorize the Park Service to acquire through donation or voluntary sale three other historic properties: Whitehall, Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse and part of Fort Monroe’s North Beach in Virginia, where ships delivered enslaved Africans in 1619.

From Washington Post

He noted that Northam had removed language from an arch honoring Davis at Fort Monroe in Hampton in 2019 — a year before the social justice protests that led to the others coming down — and had been quietly laying the legal groundwork for removing Lee since shortly after taking office in 2018.

From Washington Post