Sentence examples similar to a lightly manned garrison from inspiring English sources
In August 1704, an Anglo-Dutch invasion force sailed into the Bay of Gibraltar and rapidly overcame the poorly manned garrison.
The lightly manned garrison at first refused, but it retreated on October 8 in the face of a larger attack force.
The expedition ended instead at Mamboya where a 60-man garrison was established.
A probable wooden fort and prison were built on the remains of the motte and defended by a hundred-man garrison.
From London's viewpoint, leaving a lightly garrisoned West to the fur-gathering Indians also made economic and imperial sense.
A lightly bearded man scurried behind her with a boom mike.
A federal magistrate ordered the man, Garrison Storm Bowman, sent to Virginia, said the marshal, Charles Reavis of Raleigh.
They lured soldiers outside for a council, and took the 20-man garrison captive without bloodshed.
The Vought OS2U Kingfisher was a lightly armed two-man aircraft designed in 1937.
On June 21 Rommel captured the fortress of Tobruk, its 33,000-man garrison, and an immense amount of stores.
A force of 300 armed Californios took Gillespie and his 50-man garrison by surprise and demanded an unconditional surrender.
