garrison
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On Sunday, the group said it seized Turbah, a garrison town that lies on the sole supply route linking Taiz to Aden, a key port on the Arabian Sea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
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
Foreign diplomats and dignitaries have long seen a meeting with the military chief in the garrison city of Rawalpindi near the capital to be a key item on their schedules.
From Barron's ● Apr. 12, 2026
The castle garrison had sworn their swords to his cause, one and all, and no man of them had suffered harm.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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Japan has been steadily fortifying its southwestern islands with missiles and garrisons to defend against attack.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 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
Amari did see in the distance, however, occasional garrisons of soldiers the farther south they traveled.
From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper
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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
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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
Of these at least 10,000 men are required to guard Indian territory and for the garrisoning of coast-wise fortifications, so that only a regular army of 20,000 is available for field service.
From Operations Upon the Sea A Study by Franz, Freiherr von Edelsheim
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