cantonment

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I was immediately hooked by the teeming world of the Grand Trunk Road, the bazaars, the busy cantonments and towns and the remote hill stations.

From The Guardian • Dec. 19, 2012

Many World War I cantonments were long since abandoned, others were hardly fit for habitation.

From Time Magazine Archive

The expeditionary forces that are now in North Africa lived in pup tents for months prior to their departure for that campaign, to toughen the men and to make their cantonments available for new divisions.

From Time Magazine Archive

A civil engineer since 1902, he built cantonments during the War.

From Time Magazine Archive

I have once more put my army into cantonments in order to rest them.

From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Hall, Henry Foljambe