cantonment
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A few walked alone, their faces frozen in shock, as helicopters landed every few minutes on a football field inside the town's military cantonment, whipping up clouds of dust.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
The incident occurred at Mathura cantonment railway station in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2022
The base lost contact with it around 20 minutes later, just before it was due to land in the cantonment town of Wellington.
From Reuters ● Dec. 9, 2021
Through their research, the cousins determined Armstrong’s original burial site in 1941 was in the British cantonment area of St. Luke’s Anglican Church Cemetery in Toungoo, Burma.
From Washington Times ● May 29, 2017
The path leading to the Pawnee villages runs in a direction a little south of west from the cantonment, and lies across a tract of high and barren prairie for the first ten miles.
From Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi by David Ives Bushnell
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