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The Royal Navy's job at Gibraltar, besides keeping the soldiery provisioned, munitioned and reinforced with men and new parts for damaged guns, is to prevent Axis submarines from passing through the Strait.

From Time Magazine Archive

I could only wonder at the magnificent fighting qualities of soldiers who had held their own so effectively against armies equipped and armed and munitioned as the Germans were.

From Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army by Hall, James Norman

Behind them from the Danube at Belgrade to the �gean at Saloniki ran the Orient railroad, by which they were munitioned.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)

One article of furniture, which I took to be a cottage piano or melodeon, turned out, on raising the lid, to be a wash-stand, amply munitioned with water, towels, and a new piece of soap.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 by Various

We are getting on fairly fast with our work of telling off troops to transports so that each boat load of men landed will be, so to say, on its own; victualled, watered and munitioned.

From Gallipoli Diary, Volume I by Hamilton, Ian, Sir