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Definition of Garrisons
1. garrison [v] - See also: garrison
Lexicographical Neighbors of Garrisons
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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