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Sentence Examples During the Great Siege of 1779-83, the garrison under General Elliott resisted all attempts to bombard or starve them out. The District of Columbia, of course, was a garrison town and a transit point, with a plethora of saloons and bawdy houses to attract soldiers. Though the garrison surrendered without much of a fight, many were still put to the sword. These elites raised militias that freed U.S. forces from town security duties and joined garrison soldiers to hunt guerrillas in the boondocks. Due to the enemy's covering, seizing the hospital put us further from the enemy than at any other point around the garrison. There was a timber palisade around the top, which would have contained great stone buildings to hold the garrison. In this encounter, a Union garrison of about four thousand defeated four times as many attacking Confederates in a fierce morning contest. There is a sizable military garrison in the country and US warplanes are familiar sights at Saudi air force bases. The local garrison holed up in St Mary's Church and put up some tough opposition before falling to the superior Royalist forces. Expecting any commander who is overly supervised in garrison to suddenly become an agile, adaptive leader in a field environment is unrealistic. For a while, in those early days, Bolton seemed like a garrison town, the streets full of men in khaki. He failed to capture Tobruk, and for over a year the isolated garrison held out against all attempts to take it. Apart from some garrison artillery, the regular army comprised staff officers and instructional cadres for the volunteer militia. The Thirty marched out to attack Thrasybulus, at the head of the Lacedaemonian garrison. The coup collapsed when the Turk military garrison in Cyprus was reinforced by troops from mainland Turkey. The hard-pressed British garrison called for army and air force reinforcements. Fifteen cohorts were annihilated at Atuatuca, and another garrison commanded by Quintus Cicero only just saved by a relief column. The garrison of Kilkenny surrendered without putting up much resistance and Cromwell's forces entered the town without losing a man. The town's garrison has been fighting for the past two weeks and continues to hold its positions on the left bank of the Euphrates. They bring in priests and religious officials to perform rituals over the garrison, hoping it will drive me away. Show More Sentences It was once a garrison town, a market centre and an important seat of learning. Sensing an impending emergency, he went to his headquarters on Merdeka Square, just beside the Jakarta garrison. In a French garrison in Spain, Ducos has impounded the carriages of La Marquesa Helene Mendora. Nothing is more satisfying than wheeling a ballista over and taking down their garrison. After the conquest, the fort was probably reused as a garrison for Roman troops. When you consider we're building 3,000 homes at the garrison, you start to realise it makes very good economical sense. Therefore, I chose the second course of action to stay and defend the garrison. On the spur of the moment they decided to capture the Rock which was then badly defended by a small garrison of sixty Spanish soldiers. The various forces converged in April 1945, and the Berlin garrison commander capitulated on 2 May. On 20 June it capitulated, the garrison of 23,000 men surrendering, with vast quantities of stores. The city surrendered on August 10, on condition that the garrison be allowed to leave peacefully. The manor also boasts fine views of the local hospital, a stunning former garrison building. It may have originally been a privately owned fishing house, later used as a garrison for troops guarding the city. Casilinum was defended by a garrison of two thousand Campanians, and seven hundred of Hannibal's soldiers. My master and the Prince accompanied by K'ang Yu-wei and a small garrison of quickly degenerating soldiery fled eastward toward Ch'I-chou. He landed, with a small group of armed colleagues, intent on winning the local garrison for the Bonapartist cause. She is the slavishly adoring but unsightly would-be lover in his godforsaken garrison town. For the officers of the tiny garrison stationed at Camp Sheridan, the situation was akin to sitting on a powder keg. We don't know what they have already over there, and I don't want to leave this position undefended trying to take out a garrison station. Nor were they going to the Khyber pass, but to Jalalabad, which, along with the Kandahar garrison, remained unconquered. Show More Sentences But even if we were to garrison every town and village in the country, we could neither control nor stop this process. By 0400 hours, the last shots were fired against the garrison and our regiments had withdrawn behind Shiyane Hill. These men appear to be mercenaries given garrison duties to protect towns in potential danger who had already provided men for the fyrd. Flying supplies and reinforcements into the garrison, Slim mounted an overland campaign that gradually broke through to his besieged forces. If that was the case, then why didn't she go to the garrison posted in this town? The centre will bring together facilities that at present are scattered over four locations in the garrison town. Richard hesitated to land, not knowing the situation, but as soon as the garrison saw the sails, they sallied out to attack. As he lay dying, he suddenly realised to his horror that he had been shot by his own brother, who was a member of the parliamentarian garrison. There are shots of the garrison, the dry grass and flowers rustling in the wind, and the sharply defined, dilapidated stone walls and statues. Before 2500 BC, these states were capable of far-reaching campaigns employing phalanxes of drilled spearmen, ass-drawn battlewagons, and fortified garrison posts. The other is an 80-acre estate in garrison, New York, which is about halfway between Shokan and Soho. The city fell immediately, but the garrison held out in the citadel. As he approaches the British garrison, troops rush out to greet him. This meant cotton khaki for summer and interim use of the earlier olive drab wool field jacket and trousers as winter garrison wear, until the present Army green arrived. Jobs could be threatened in Hull under blanket moves by English Heritage to designate as an ancient monument the whole site of the city's former 16th century garrison. Gozik watched as the MPs used garrison belts to tie the condemned man to the pole. The increased costs of the new governor and garrison far outstripped the profits of the wasted marchlands confiscated from Kildare and the Church. The delay enabled the Japanese garrison of 19,000 troops to construct the most formidable beach defences, a way through which had to be cleared by underwater demolition teams. The entire garrison would turn out for the Retreat ceremony. They normally wear Home Service review order dress as would have been worn on garrison duties and manoeuvres during the latter part of the nineteenth century. Show More Sentences A narrow stretch of water was all that separated the Japanese invaders and the 14,000 British, Indian, and Canadian garrison troops left to defend the Crown Colony. With Hadrian we see the first steps toward a system of frontier garrison troops, permanently stationed, along with a field army that gets moved from one hot spot to another. Rhodes, who had taken a great interest in the gun and its manufacture, was present, along with a number of local dignitaries and senior officers of the garrison. Out of the 18,500-strong party that left Kabul, only one man, Dr. Brydon, made it back to the British garrison in Jalalabad. The garrison troops manning the regional bases of operation will facilitate local stability, maintain the lines of communication, and provide logistical support. The affair quickly escalated and colonial militia began to entrench themselves enthusiastically around Boston Harbour, overlooking the British garrison. The island will be covered by the garrison on the Falkland Islands. On 9 October, the remaining garrison surrendered and the Germans occupied the city. The British garrison there surrendered on 25 May, although 4,286 men were evacuated by Royal Navy ships. The navy destroyers ran the gauntlet of German tanks and artillery to evacuate the garrison. The French garrison of Fort Nieulay, outside the western ramparts surrendered after a bombardment. When the 1st Canadian Army approached at the end of August, the garrison withdrew, not desiring to enter into battle for the port. These forts, built in masonry and shaped stone, were designed to shelter their garrison against bombardment. It would have held a battery of guns and an accompanying garrison, designed to prevent enemy vessels from entering the harbour. In 1642, during the English Civil War, a Parliamentary garrison moved into Southampton. In 30 BCE, a revolt of the Treveri was suppressed by Marcus Nonius Gallus, and the Titelberg was occupied by a garrison of the Roman army. Their garrison had come under siege during a rebellion by the tribes of the Belgae led by Ambiorix. Finally, from a distance of two miles, Ariovistus cut Caesar's supply line, isolating his garrison. His brother Titus Flavius Sabinus II, as city prefect, commanded the entire city garrison of Rome. The garrison city of Oescus received the status of Roman colony after its legionary garrison was redeployed. Show More Sentences He left Italy with a garrison in Pavia and a few Frankish counts in place the same year. An attempt to retake Malta ended disastrously, however, when the local population sided with the Arabs and massacred the Byzantine garrison. Several scholars point out that unlike the preceding Mongols, the Ming dynasty did not garrison permanent troops in Tibet. Between 1422 and 1431, the treasure fleet remained in Nanjing to serve in the city's garrison. The English gave the city a garrison and a charter which made it equal to English towns. A major obstacle to his progress was Fort Jesus, housing the garrison of a Portuguese settlement at Mombasa. On the early morning of 4 April 1931, several officers of the Madeira garrison, that opposed the National Dictatorship Government, revolted. In 1941, islands began to be strongly reinforced with ground and air forces, with its garrison achieving 32 500 troops and more than 60 aircraft. By the time of the governor Uqba, and possibly as early as 714, the city of Pamplona was occupied by a Berber garrison. Sulayman fled to the Berber garrison of Valencia, where he held out for two years. Abd Allah crossed over to Valencia first in 796, calling on the allegiance of the same Berber garrison that sheltered Sulayman years earlier. In 794, the Berber garrison of Tarragona massacred the inhabitants of the city. Wadih's allies killed him, and the Cordoba garrison surrendered with the expectation of amnesty. One group of Saqaliba seized Orihuela from its Berber garrison and took control of its entire region. However, the infertility of the land led to famine and sickness in the garrison. The garrison remains, with a large portion of the forces stationed in neighbouring Zhuhai as well. The Spanish garrison on the island was small, but survived a Dutch bombardment. A few shots fired from a machine gun on Siar over the heads of the tiny German garrison at Lorengau were the last shots fired in the battle. When the English got ashore, they seized some artillery pieces and a royal strongbox containing gold ducats, the garrison payroll. He was taken prisoner and spent two years as a prisoner at the garrison of Veracruz before he was sent back to Spain. Show More Sentences The garrison survived all attacks, including an assault on September 13, 1782 that included 48 ships and 450 cannon. A garrison of 4,000 troops defended the city with such intensity that Don Fadrique contemplated withdrawing. Menendez proceeded to massacre the defenceless Huguenots, after which he wiped out the Fort Caroline garrison. Due to the ongoing Livonian War, Moscow's garrison was as small as 6,000, and could not even delay the Tatar approach. The pacification was moderately successful, but in 1634, Bratsk was destroyed and its garrison killed. A few of them were sent to other places such as Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and Tibet to serve as garrison troops. Kennan reports its garrison through much of its service was 600 men and a battery of artillery. The layout and structure of Florence in many ways harkens back to the Roman era, where it was designed as a garrison settlement. With the French fleet neutralised, Harman then attacked the French at Cayenne, forcing its garrison to surrender. The entire garrison was paraded and watched as the condemned men were stripped of their uniforms and placed in shackles. Other military institutions completed the picture of the garrison town that Woolwich had become in the early 19th century. The coal was used for the British garrison at Annapolis Royal, and in construction of the Fortress of Louisbourg. By 1450 the companies were divided into the field army, known as the grande ordonnance and the garrison force known as the petite ordonnance. For the rest of the year, Ogdensburg had no American garrison, and many residents of Ogdensburg resumed visits and trade with Prescott. The British garrison at Prairie du Chien also fought off another attack by Major Zachary Taylor. In 1072 King William set up a garrison at Carlisle, but the isolated garrison needed constant reinforcement and supplies. In the Aosta Valley Napoleon's army slipped by an Austrian garrison at Bard just out of cannon range. Sir Thomas Fairfax took the command of the garrison and marched to meet the Duke of Newcastle but was defeated. The city was occupied by a parliamentary garrison, and subsequently by their Scots allies. When the Jacobites retreated across the border to Scotland they left a garrison of 400 men in Carlisle Castle. Show More Sentences When the besieged garrison of Kaunas surrendered in 1915, 20,000 Russians became prisoners. The British taipans stood in one sodden circle with their womenfolk, like bored officers at a garrison get-together. The lower ward contained royal accommodation, while the upper consisted of service facilities and the accommodation for the garrison. During the English Civil War, the Parliamentarians captured the isles, only to see their garrison mutiny and return the isles to the Royalists. They even established a major garrison in Sicily in case the Seleucids ever got to Italy. He certainly brought with him the Sixth Legion to replace the existing garrison. He took control of York after defeating the Norman garrison and inciting a local uprising. Norwich was besieged and surrendered, with the garrison allowed to go to Brittany. Henry II's forces took Saintes by surprise and captured much of its garrison, although Richard was able to escape with a small group of soldiers. Warwick's contingent from the garrison of Calais under Andrew Trollope defected to the Lancastrians, and the Yorkist leaders fled. Many of these French mercenaries were from the garrison of Phillipe de Crevecoeur, Lord of Esquerdes. The English garrison surrendered and for the third time in the day Bruce and his supporters were victorious. The military protocol of the day was that a town or garrison that rejected the chance to surrender was not entitled to quarter. The refusal of the garrison at Drogheda to do this, even after the walls had been breached, was to Cromwell justification for the massacre. The wind made a return impossible and Plymouth was unsuitable as it had a garrison. The wind dropped on Tuesday evening, and the firebreaks created by the garrison finally began to take effect on Wednesday 5 September. John with a Neapolitan garrison and placed under the guarantee of third powers. During his scouting operations, Nelson had developed a plan to assault the French garrison of the Turks Islands. When the Roman garrison left around 410, the various parts of Britain were left to govern and defend themselves. According to Sheppard Frere, the garrison reflected the political rather than military purpose of the wall. Show More Sentences However this did not prevent an outbreak of disease in the garrison in 1841 caused by poor water supply, resulting in several deaths. Greville was not in the castle at the time and the garrison was under the command of Sir Edward Peyto. William Dugdale, acting as a herald, called for the garrison commander to surrender the castle, but he was refused. A garrison was maintained in the castle complete with artillery and supplies from 1643 to 1660, at its strongest it numbered 302 soldiers. The barracks for the garrison, stables, workshops, and storage facilities were often found in the bailey. They allowed the garrison to control the surrounding area, and formed a centre of administration, providing the lord with a place to hold court. It was more efficient to starve the garrison out than to assault it, particularly for the most heavily defended sites. They were more commonly used against the garrison rather than the buildings of a castle. Mining was so effective that during the siege of Margat in 1285 when the garrison were informed a sap was being dug they surrendered. Quite possibly the garrison bought the malt, and hired a local brewer to make beer from it for the troops. She eloped with Lawrence to her parents' home in Metz, a garrison town then in Germany near the disputed border with France. The garrison, consisting of units from ground, naval and air forces, reports its command to the Central Military Commission. The Basic Law of Hong Kong protects all civilians and civil affairs against any interference by the garrison. The remaining garrison in Wexford was then attacked and forced out of the town. The British installed a new ruler, and left a mission and garrison in Kabul. In practice, however, the forces that were needed to garrison and secure the new territories were a drain on the German war effort. They were joined by large segments of Polish society, and together forced Warsaw's Russian garrison to withdraw north of the city. Though isolated by land, Tobruk's garrison continued to receive supplies and replacements, delivered by the Royal Navy at night. Many of the Allied soldiers were tied up in garrison duties because of the uncertain status and intentions of the Vichy forces. Instead of isolating the small British garrison there and pressing on with his main force to Dimapur, Sato chose to capture the hill station. Show More Sentences The Japanese tried first to relieve the garrison at Meiktila and then to recapture the town and destroy its defenders. The fourth gun resumed firing intermittently in the afternoon, and its garrison surrendered on 7 June. Britain refused to withdraw from Suez, relying upon its treaty rights, as well as the sheer presence of the Suez garrison. A provost sergeant is in charge of the garrison police or regimental police. At the end of the 19th century, the colony raised volunteer units to form a reserve for the military garrison. In the 1950s, after the end of World War II, the Royal Naval dockyard and the military garrison were closed. In 1942, a battalion en route to India was redeployed to the Falklands as a garrison amid fears of a Japanese seizure of the archipelago. After the war, the United Kingdom expanded its military presence, building RAF Mount Pleasant and increasing the size of its garrison. Encouraged by the Prince of Hesse, the garrison did more than could humanly be expected, and the English Marines gained an immortal glory. The British Army maintains a garrison on the Falkland Islands based at Mount Pleasant. Governor Abou Baker ordered the Egyptian garrison at Sagallo to retire to Zeila. For his subsequent campaign in Gaul, Maximus drew on a large number of garrison units stationed on the northern border. Bruce and his party then attacked Dumfries Castle where the English garrison surrendered. Knox's powers as a preacher came to the attention of the chaplain of the garrison, John Rough. The French besieged the castle and forced the surrender of the garrison on 31 July. Washington launched a surprise attack on Howe's garrison on October 4, which was eventually repulsed. The naval blockade, however, was relatively weak, and the British were able to resupply the garrison. Philip's, the British garrison under James Murray surrendered on 5 February 1782, securing a primary war goal for the Spanish. The sound of a wolf roused a sentry, however, who alerted his garrison, which forced a Viking retreat. He went to Gaul to pursue his imperial ambitions, taking a large portion of the British garrison troops with him. Show More Sentences In April, Castell y Bere was besieged by over 3,000 men, and the small Welsh garrison, commanded by Cynfrig ap Madog, surrendered on 25 April. The castle chapel was built into one of the towers and would have been used by the king and his family, rather than the wider garrison. English settlers were given incentives to move to the walled garrison town, which for decades the Welsh were forbidden from entering. At the start of the conflict, Harlech's garrison was badly equipped, and Conwy had fallen into disrepair. It is now home to a small Spanish Naval garrison and an automated lighthouse. The military port experienced an increase in activity, and the garrison stationed at Cherbourg was reinforced. During the Middle Ages, Cherbourg, a stronghold of the Cotentin peninsula, was home to a small garrison for the protection of the fortress. With the implementation of the harbour and military port, Cherbourg became a port of war at the end of the 18th century, with a large garrison. It took him two days, arriving in time to relieve the French garrison, but he discovered he could not rescue his fleet. In 1796 the Russian garrison that had been established in Yakutat was attacked and destroyed by Yakutat Tlingits. Let's share sovereignty rather than lose later, or have to spill blood and sustain a garrison to hold on to them and the black gold underneath. By the early 3rd Century, the garrison had changed to the Cuneus Frisiorum Vinoviensium, which was originally recruited in Holland. On that same day, the British garrison in Jerusalem withdrew, and High Commissioner Alan Cunningham left the city for Haifa, where he was to leave the country by sea. This became known as 'The First Relief of Lucknow', as this force was not strong enough to break the siege or extricate themselves, and so was forced to join the garrison. The garrison in the Kremlin surrendered to the triumphant Pozharsky. Nevertheless, he kept the treasure fleet as a part of Nanjing's garrison. Leaving a garrison of 1,000 men, George sailed on to the Peloponnesus. Philip and his army joined his son in 338 BC, and they marched south through Thermopylae, taking it after stubborn resistance from its Theban garrison. On the eve of the Glorious Revolution, the standing army in Scotland was about 3,000 men in various regiments and another 268 veterans in the major garrison towns. The Army have a large garrison in Aldershot, with Sandhurst being nearby. Show More Sentences In 1282, the Sicilians rose up against the second dynasty of the Angevins on the Sicilian Vespers and massacred the garrison soldiers throughout the island. Furthermore, the size of the Cape garrison could be reduced if there were many colonists capable of being called up for militia service as needed. He increased the Cape garrison by about 300 troops and replaced the original earthen fortificiations of the Castle of Good Hope with new ones of stone. To cross the limes it was necessary to pass the towers, and so come to the notice of the garrison, or try to climb or destroy the wall and the stakes. After the situation became untenable, the garrison under Lucius Caedicius, accompanied by survivors of Teutoburg Forest, broke through the siege, and reached the Rhine. Edward's successor, Queen Mary I, intended to establish a garrison of 150 soldiers on the islands, but it is uncertain if these numbers were ever achieved. All this time little bands of rounded-up Evzones and men of the other regiment of the garrison were being brought in, together with news of the French losses. A Greek Phrourion was a fortified collection of buildings used as a military garrison, and is the equivalent of the Roman castellum or English fortress. A second trench was to be dug behind the front line, to shelter the trench garrison and to have easy access to the front line, through covered communication trenches. Major General Anatoly Stessel, commander of the Port Arthur garrison, believed that the purpose of defending the city was lost after the fleet had been destroyed. It is home to a small Spanish Navy garrison and an automated lighthouse. The operations resulted in the defeat and surrender of the limited Portuguese defensive garrison, which was forced to surrender to a much larger military force. The German Operation Zitronella took this garrison by force in 1943, and at the same time destroying the settlements at Longyearbyen and Barentsburg. This surprise attack drove the garrison to flee the town, at which point the rebel force marched off to join up with McCracken and fight in the Battle of Antrim. But the harmost and the Spartan garrison still retained their hold on their Akropoleis, or citadels, as a guarantee that Spartan interests should suffer no serious injury. They surrounded the hamlets of Sarbaras and Tete Noir, capturing a garrison of 65 men, before pushing on towards Berliamont and taking 60 more prisoners. Castell Y Bere's starving garrison would eventually surrender on 25 April. Powys, however, was not strong enough to garrison Rhufoniog and Rhos, nor was Chester able to exert influence inland from its coastal holdings of Rhuddlan and Degannwy. Leaving 1,300 men behind as a garrison, Burgoyne continued the advance. On December 25, 1776, Washington stealthily crossed the Delaware, and overwhelmed the Hessian garrison at Trenton the following morning, taking 900 prisoners. Show More Sentences John Knox's chaplaincy of the castle garrison was not to last long. Stephen therefore marched to the city and installed a new garrison. Despite being a garrison city and undergoing major social and industrial developments during the First World War, Perth remained relatively unchanged. A separate action on the fort town of Kars in eastern Anatolia led to a siege, and a Turkish attempt to reinforce the garrison was destroyed by a Russian fleet at Sinop. Most of the Japanese garrison died during the battle of Ramree Island. There were no further major military activities in North America, although the British still had 30,000 garrison troops occupying New York City, Charleston, and Savannah. Burgoyne's army had been reduced to about 6,000 men by the loss at Bennington and the need to garrison Ticonderoga, and he was running short on supplies. Rather than destroy the defenses, as instructed, Pimienta left a small garrison of 150 men to hold the island and prevent occupation by the Dutch. A weak and emaciated Tolkien spent the remainder of the war alternating between hospitals and garrison duties, being deemed medically unfit for general service. Under the Qing, it was the site of an imperial army garrison. The Tower retained the formal status of a royal palace and to mark this a party of twelve Yeomen of the Guard was left in place as a token garrison. In 1660 the English Council of State ordered the castle governor to disband the garrison and hand over the castle to Robert Greville, 4th Baron Brooke. During the war, the Tower's garrison joined forces with the barons. Malta was elevated to a county and a marquisate, but its trade was now totally ruined, and for a considerable period of it remained solely a fortified garrison. He then sailed for Egypt leaving a substantial garrison in Malta. Nelson helped oversee the withdrawal from Corsica, and by December 1796 was aboard the frigate HMS Minerve, covering the evacuation of the garrison at Elba. On his arrival, Nelson was given command of a small squadron consisting of Agamemnon, three frigates and a sloop, and ordered to blockade the French garrison on Corsica. Although France maintained roughly 300,000 troops in Iberia during the Peninsular War, the vast majority were tied down to garrison duty and to intelligence operations. Even small nations now had armies rivalling the size of the Great Powers' forces of past wars but most of these were poor quality forces only suitable for garrison duties. The garrison at the Tower took matters into their own hands after waiting all day for requested help from James's official firemen who were busy in the west. Show More Sentences The city's garrison resisted until February 1082, when Dyrrachium was betrayed to the Normans by the Venetian and Amalfitan merchants who had settled there. A subsequent local uprising was crushed by the garrison of York. In military matters, the Roman army was reorganised to consist of mobile field units and garrison soldiers capable of countering internal threats and barbarian invasions. In January of 1932, the peasant insurrection of La Matanza began with the occupation of a military garrison, government buildings, and private homes in western El Salvador. The Americans' renewed attack on the Niagara peninsula quickly captured Fort Erie on July 3, 1814 with the 170 garrison quickly surrendering to the 5, 000 Americans. Joseph Island, on Lake Huron, learned of the declaration of war before the nearby American garrison at the important trading post at Mackinac Island in Michigan. Examples from Classical Literature The open sea behind gave opportunity to Heraclius to reenforce the garrison continually. The relics of the garrison which had withdrawn to the outlying fort north of the Guadiana surrendered next morning. The man told us of a charger which one of the officers in the garrison was trying to get rid of. The Senegalese Tirailleurs forming the garrison were paraded for their inspection. Alhama abounded with hawking, sharping, idle hangers-on, eager to profit by the vices and follies of the garrison. The city of Chalkedon had revolted from Athens, and received a Lacedaemonian harmost and garrison. About the same time Douglas came upon Roxburgh, when the garrison were enjoying the careless mirth of Shrovetide. Immediately after this exploit, the garrison of the chartreux capitulated on honourable terms, and were conducted to Antwerp. It was the garrison of Quinsan attempting to escape to Soochow, some seven or eight thousand men. Leaving a garrison there, he took Ilion by force, a name better known than the town, on account of that of the same name in Asia. It is built on the bank of a small river which runs from the Rhone, is a walled town, and has usually a tolerably strong garrison. At this time there was a good deal of indiscipline in the garrison, with which General Elliot dealt severely. He had asked the commander of my brother's garrison to permit Dimitri to return home to help with the keta fishing! Area organization includes two military regions, with headquarters at cluj and Iasi, and the Bucharest garrison. A commonplace book contains many notions in garrison, whence the owner may draw out an army into the field on competent warning. The whole garrison was under arms, and the concourse of people was immense. These soon silenced its guns, and the lunette was abandoned by the garrison. Even the Tower ought to have no garrison except the trainbands of the Tower Hamlets. Lambert soon had the castle surrounded, cooping the garrison closely within its own precincts. The town of Troyes, where there was an English garrison, did not wish to yield. Show More Sentences An anecdote relating to this garrison has been handed down to the present time. Since the opening of the railway, trade has largely been diverted to Nagpur, and the garrison has recently been reduced. Lugdunensian Gaul belonged to the imperial provinces, and therefore possessed a propraetor and a larger garrison. They were officers of the battalion of pontevedra, which, to his disgust, had recently arrived for the garrison of the town. But now the Corinthians were by no means disposed to part with the garrison of the Argives. To their summons, the archpriest made answer like a stout old persecutor, and bade his garrison fire upon the mob. He urged me to do likewise, to misbehave, to sin with officers of the garrison. The garrison of Oakley Villa has passed the worst, and there is no talk of surrender. And he also sent to Cumae as large a garrison as he thought would be sufficient to guard the fortress there. As a member of the second Delian League it was again controlled by a garrison and an archon. In the centre of the island is an eminence, which was occupied by the garrison, and had some artillery. The Officers and Soldiers supplies and wooding the garrison is to be paid by a draft on the pay-master at Halifax. A body would think there was business enough for all the so'Gers up at the garrison, at the head of the lake. His early career was varied, and he was in succession a packman, a soldier in the Edinburgh garrison in 1745, and a school-master. In his tragedy of Ezelino, after the tyrant's downfall, a captain is sent to beleaguer Treviso, and reduce Ezelino's garrison. The city, which was without a garrison, opened negotiations, during the pendency of which it was taken by assault and pillaged. So thought the philosopher-king of Prussia, when he let his regiments out of garrison to go and face the enemy. Harpagus is said to have burnt Phocaea, thus punishing the houses and temples for the attack on the garrison. Nor, indeed, was the proper garrison of the fort in at all a placable mood. It was intended also to take and garrison Terceira, and any others of the Azores. Show More Sentences After the death of Phoebidas the Lacedaemonians despatched a polemarch with a division by sea to form the garrison of Thespiae. The old Spanish garrison tower must be refitted for the women and children. And at the siege of Grave the chivalry of Brabant made a similar use of carrion to empoison the garrison into a surrender. The Baluchi garrison refused all terms, and fired on the boats of the squadron, which were engaged in landing troops. They had heard of the fall of the alamo, but had not imagined that all of the garrison were slaughtered. The alcayde, Aben Comixa, retreated to a strong tower with a few of the garrison and inhabitants. The Seven Captains are beleaguering Thebes, and affairs are going ill with the garrison. Suddenly, as they turned an alleyway, a volley from the Mexican garrison was fired. To avoid useless loss of men, he withdrew the garrison from the bridgehead. The garrison of that city was reduced as much as possible to re-enforce his column. Captain Foote was left as governor of the island with a garrison, while we went on to amboyna. Since the battle of Chaeronea, this citadel had been held by a Macedonian garrison. A white flag waved on the rampart, and the drums of the garrison beat the chamade. The garrison received with acclaim the news that roque conveyed. Find more words! 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