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Definition of Cantonments
1. cantonment [n] - See also: cantonment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cantonments
Literary usage of Cantonments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On War by Carl von Clausewitz, James John Graham, Frederic Natusch Maude (1908)
"CHAPTER XIX ATTACK ON THE ENEMY'S ARMY IN ITS cantonments WE have not ...
The attack on an enemy's Army in cantonments is therefore the surprise of an Army ..."
2. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"the cantonments. The railway station lies to the south of the cantonments. ...
The military force in cantonments ordinarily consists of a full Native ..."
3. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"Benares lay at least ten hours by rail from the cantonments, and nothing in the
... There is a queer smell upon our cantonments — a smell av dried earth and ..."
4. King's Complete History of the World War ...: 1914-1918. Europe's War with by William C. King (1922)
"448 cantonments and Reserve Depots THE first great military operation was the
construction in this country of large cantonments and camps - for the ..."
5. My Life and Acts in Hungary in the Years 1848 and 1849 by Artúr Görgey (1852)
"These cantonments were: For the whole first army corps, and the isolated division
of the second corps, Eger-Farmos ; For the Aulich division, ..."
6. Life of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington by William Hamilton Maxwell (1845)
"CHAPTER V. cantonments OF THE FRENCH AND ALLIES —LOSSES OF THE PAST ... Two divisions
had their cantonments in Upper Beira, and round Castello Branco. ..."
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