Sentences with garrison
gar·ri·son
G g - ...a five-hundred-man French army garrison.
- The approaches to the garrison have been heavily mined.
- After the conquest, the fort was probably reused as a garrison for Roman troops.
- During the war, it was used first to garrison Union troops and then to imprison up to 2,000 Confederate soldiers.
- British troops still garrisoned the country. [VERB noun]
- A garrison town
- The entire garrison would turn out for the Retreat ceremony.
- It has reinforced its garrison of 35,000 troops.
- The garrison troops manning the regional bases of operation will facilitate local stability, maintain the lines of communication, and provide logistical support.
- The governor of the garrison was suspected of being a Jacobite traitor; an allegation he vehemently denied.
- He only had a small garrison defending London at this time.
- When you consider we're building 3,000 homes at the garrison, you start to realise it makes very good economical sense.
- The soldiers tried there best to garrison the town with what they had and readied themselves for the onslaught.
- But even if we were to garrison every town and village in the country, we could neither control nor stop this process.
- It may have originally been a privately owned fishing house, later used as a garrison for troops guarding the city.
- 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.
- 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.
- A small garrison of British troops would remain.
- A more lightly manned and shorter linear barrier could, potentially, release troops to garrison a more extensive territory such as the Lowlands of Scotland by a looser disposition of forts.
- Three parts of the building's walls have been unearthed during excavations at the garrison, giving archaeologists enough information to map out the route of the 940-metre circuit.
- Henry agreed to garrison the towns only until 20 May, but told him to commit nothing to paper.
- But the Crusaders were too few to garrison fortresses and hold ground in the great sea of opposition that now confronted them.
- In 1836 the British Legion helped raise the siege of San Sebasti�n, and regular Royal Marines arrived to garrison a nearby port.
- If that was the case, then why didn't she go to the garrison posted in this town?
- By 0400 hours, the last shots were fired against the garrison and our regiments had withdrawn behind Shiyane Hill.
- 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.
- 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 Czar, for his part, had under his immediate personal control the Household Guards and the garrison of the capital.