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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

His plan to hold his inauguration at a military garrison in the south of the country rather than at the traditional Plaza de Bolívar in Bogotá seems a good start.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 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

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

It enables him to communicate with a matching transceiver upstairs, with two other anti-air batteries inside the walls of the city, and with the underground garrison command across the river mouth.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

Amari did see in the distance, however, occasional garrisons of soldiers the farther south they traveled.

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

The First Battalion had spent their money freely while they were garrisoning Edinburgh Castle, and the authorities had not forgotten it.

From Trenching at Gallipoli The personal narrative of a Newfoundlander with the ill-fated Dardanelles expedition by John Gallishaw