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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

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

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 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 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

It has a major military base in N’Djamena and smaller garrisons in the north and east.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2024

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

From Reuters ● Oct. 25, 2023

These foreign holdings or “cleruchies” not only put underused land back into taxable cultivation, but also afforded the king what was essentially a countrywide system of garrisons.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

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 comprised two classes, the one devoted exclusively to garrisoning towns and castles, the other distributed throughout the country.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various