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Desperate, he led his army back across the Delaware River through a howling nor’easter on Christmas night to attack the surprised Hessian garrison at Trenton, N.J.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Strategic towns, including Kidal in the desert north, and Kati, a garrison town near the capital Bamako, were targeted in the April 25 and 26 offensive.

From Barron's ● May 6, 2026

Gao is the army's second-largest military stronghold after Kati, a garrison town near Bamako which is home to several senior junta officials and was targeted in the weekend attacks.

From Barron's ● Apr. 29, 2026

The garrison at Al Tanf sits in southern Syria along the highway between Baghdad and Damascus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

“Four thousand, Your Grace. They will help us garrison our abandoned castles, the better to defend the Wall.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Those shown deploying in coastal areas, he said, were already stationed in garrisons nearby.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

Since 2019, soldiers have shut down some smaller army bases and moved into larger, fortified garrisons known as "super camps" in an attempt to better resist militant attacks.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2025

Last week the RSF captured desert garrisons on the border with Libya held by the Joint Forces.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025

Russia's military presence in Armenia includes garrisons in two locations and an airbase.

From Reuters ● Oct. 25, 2023

Hoarfrost Hill and Rimegate still lacked garrisons, so Jon had asked their views on which of the remaining wildling chiefs and war lords might be best suited to hold them.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

At any given time through the 1980s, nearly 300,000 U.S. forces would have been garrisoned in around 900 sites, ranging from airfields to communications outposts and housing complexes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

A dramatic musical score—like something out of a Marvel movie—plays loudly over clips of officers entering the windows of the garrisoned building, climbing on their laddered megatruck, and breaking the locks to the doors.

From Slate ● May 4, 2024

When microbes try to invade our body through the nose or mouth, they have to get past the tonsils, lumps of tissue garrisoned by immune cells that help fight off the intruders.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 31, 2023

And we went to the home community in western Ukraine where the brigade was garrisoned before the war, and where many of its families still live.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2023

Now the watch-towers, which had fallen into decay, were repaired, and filled with arms, and garrisoned with ceaseless vigilance.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

His father, a retired navy man, spent a year in the 1970s garrisoning Philippine-occupied Thitu Island.

From Washington Times ● May 2, 2023

I am not saying that garrisoning South Vietnam with ground troops would have made the war a sensible enterprise.

From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021

One source, the Chandos Herald, says there were 300 men garrisoning the town.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2014

All have stepped up sea and air patrols as well as garrisoning isolated atolls and floating patrol bases.

From Reuters ● Oct. 1, 2012

He had weakened his army by garrisoning all the places he seized during his advance and now he had only seven thousand troops left.

From Rodney The Partisan by Castlemon, Harry