Sentence examples for garrison soldiers from inspiring English sources

In fact, his force consisted of tens of thousands of ill-trained and ill-equipped Filipino reservists and some 22,000 American troops who were, in effect, an amalgam of "spit-and-polish" garrison soldiers with no combat experience, artillerymen, a small group of planeless pilots and ground crews, and sailors whose ships happened to be in port when Japanese forces bombed Manila and its naval yards.

• When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and reward.

They killed 44 residents of Deerfield: 10 men, 9 women, and 25 children, five garrison soldiers, and seven Hadley men.

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.

The professional Western warrior, whether a special forces operative or garrison soldier in peacekeeping mode, is a key figure of the post September 11th era, physically securing the West, and simultaneously securing its identity as the repository of virtue against barbaric threats to civilization.

It was far from easy to maintain discipline among so motley an army; yet, once the unruly barbarian accepted the quieter life of the garrison soldier, he tended to lose his fighting capacity and prove, once the test came, of little value against the still warlike barbarian facing him beyond the frontier.

Like Kilinochchi, it had a big garrison of soldiers, 1,400 of whom died trying vainly to defend it.

Six feet tall and sultry, with a mane of dark hair, she took the stage of the New York State Theater on Sunday afternoon as a Carmen prepared to eat the whole wimpy garrison of soldiers for breakfast.

A garrison of soldiers stationed in a village five hundred miles away revolted, and with the help of the villagers began to take over vast swaths of territory in the name of forming an independent state for all the black tribes of the country.

BEIJING — The Central Military Commission, China's most powerful military body, has approved the deployment of a garrison of soldiers from the People's Liberation Army to guard disputed islands claimed by China and Vietnam in the South China Sea, the state-run Xinhua news agency said Sunday.

8 And he established a garrison of soldiers, placing a large number in the city below, but not more than ten men at the fortifications and the church.