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Hampton Roads

noun

  1. 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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Rasoul carried southwest Virginia, and was defeated everywhere else, decisively losing the Hampton Roads region that neither candidate had a foothold in.

People were filling the seats in the gymnasium — some local residents, others from cities throughout Hampton Roads who said they had never spent time in Windsor beyond sitting at a stop light or filling their car with gas.

Keith Freeman, chairman of the Hampton Roads Tea Party, said he thought the state party was using “a double standard.”

Down in Virginia there is a great body of salt water known as Hampton Roads.

On the morning of March 8, 1862, the sun came up beautifully over the broad waters of Hampton Roads.

During all this time Hampton Roads had been gay with Federal shipping.

She was steaming round Hampton Roads, waiting to sink any of the boats that were maintaining that blockade.

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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