Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Hampton Roads” in chapter 5 of James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers:
...of defence almost to the last against attacks by sea.
The different stretches of coast that lay between and outside the blockade centres had peculiar features of their own. Between Washington and Hampton Roads lay the military frontier.
The blockade in the Potomac River was therefore largely devoted to the restriction of communication between the two shores, and to keeping open the water-approaches of th...
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† | Hampton Roads (Virginia, United States) | 2,301 | 76 | 35 | 0 | 0 user votes |
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