Definition of Garrisons

1. Noun. Plural of garrison. ¹

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Definition of Garrisons

1. garrison [v] - See also: garrison

Lexicographical Neighbors of Garrisons

garret window
garret windows
garreted
garreteer
garreteers
garretlike
garrets
garrigue
garrigues
garring
garrison
garrison belt
garrison cap
garrisoned
garrisoning
garrisons (current term)
garron
garronite
garrons
garrot
garrote
garroted
garroter
garroters
garrotes
garroting
garrots
garrotte
garrotted
garrotter

Literary usage of Garrisons

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"(42) To protect these new subjects, a line of frontier garrisons was gradually extended from the Rhine to the Danube. About the reign of Hadrian, ..."

2. Collections by CT Historical Society (1901)
"Wentworth garrisons or forts were built at different points in town, ... garrisons. G. w. B. A garrison or stockade built by the pioneers during the Indian ..."

3. History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France: From the by William Francis Patrick Napier (1842)
"Copons, blockading Mequinenza, Lerida and Monzon, and having garrisons in Cardona and the Seu d'Urgel, the only places in his possession, could not bring ..."

4. Cromwell in Ireland: A History of Cromwell's Irish Campaign by Denis Murphy (1883)
"2 ' Upon this occasion I must needs say that, in the bringing in of divers garrisons, his lordship hath been most eminently serviceable unto you, ..."

5. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1909)
"To Prince Michael is due the final evacuation of Servia by the Turkish garrisons, whose residence was restricted by treaty to the actual fortresses, ..."

6. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: Together with an by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1849)
"... and fixed some convenient garrisons in Staffordshire. 376 About the same time, some gentlemen of that county, rather well affected than well advised, ..."

7. The Parliamentary Debatesby Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament by Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament (1822)
"There was a charge made for provisions supplied to foreign garrisons, ... Provisions for garrisons abroad ought to be placed under a separate and distinct ..."

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