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garrison

[gar-uh-suhn] / ˈgær ə sən /


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Historical records indicate that a small military garrison was stationed at the mission after British attacks on missions became more frequent in the early 1700s.

From Science Daily Aug. 22, 2026

But then, in quick order, came Lincoln’s election to the presidency in November 1860, the secession of the slave states to form the Southern Confederacy, and the attack on the U.S. garrison in Fort Sumter.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 2026

Having just six weeks ago fled the garrison city of Kramatorsk in the east, under intense Russian pressure, she is not worried about the heatwave.

From Barron's Jun. 30, 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

A packed-dirt road had emerged out of the desert, leading us toward the garrison.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

Japan has installed missiles, radar, garrisons and electronic-warfare systems on the islands to protect the archipelago amid intensifying Chinese military activity in the East China Sea and—potentially—to play a role in any defense of Taiwan.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 28, 2026

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

She could see flickering lights in the distance, indicating settlements or garrisons of soldiers or, maybe, Fort Mose.

From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper

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

Only three were now garrisoned, a fact that Mance Rayder knew as well as they did.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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

They let the English invaders pass by, garrisoning the towns but abandoning the countryside.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various




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