Sentence examples for garrison duty from inspiring English sources

Eventually the regiment was assigned to garrison duty at Fort Gaines, one of some 60 defensive forts around the capital.

During the next 18 years changing stations almost every year Reed was on garrison duty, often at frontier stations.

From Phillip's departure in 1792, however, they met opposition from the New South Wales Corps, a military force that had been recruited to perform garrison duty.

They had expected relatively safe assignments; back home in York County, a newspaper had claimed that their brief service would consist of "garrison duty, and the elementary duties of a soldier's life".

The legions formed the foundation of Roman military power, but they were supplemented in garrison duty by numerous smaller auxiliary regiments both of cavalry and infantry, either 1,000 or 500 strong.

Though he was promoted to first lieutenant in 1822 and to captain the following year, the military profession, limited to garrison duty rather than pursued on the battlefield, bored the young officer, who preferred the adventures of a literary career.

They became Troops A and B, and in 1916 were called to join other National Guard units for garrison duty on the Mexican border after Gen. Francisco (Pancho) Villa attacked a town in New Mexico.

The Victorians then garrisoned Tientsin and the New South Wales contingent undertook garrison duties in Peking.

This group was responsible for garrison duties in much of Borneo and the eastern NEI.

Throughout the early part of World War II, these battalions remained linked, undertaking garrison duties in Australia.

Throughout July the battalion undertook garrison duties in Trieste before the 2nd New Zealand Division was withdrawn to Lake Trasimene.