Sentence examples for keep the garrison from inspiring English sources

The Third Battle of Gaza was never intended to capture the town, but to keep the garrison in place after the capture of Beersheba.

The objective of the infantry divisions was not to capture Beersheba, but to keep the main garrison occupied while the Desert Mounted Corps captured the town.

These attacks were designed to keep the Gaza garrison of 8,000 riflemen supported by 116 guns in place after the capture of Beersheba and during preparations for the main EEF attacks on Hareira and Sheria.

The men were stationed on the island to keep the guns in good working order but the garrison would have been reinforced by regular artillery and volunteer troops if ever an invasion had been imminent.

He summed up his three principal aims as being to prevent a possible landing by sea; to improve the quality of the garrison and its provisioning; and to keep the enemy at a distance with artillery.

Spain's widespread empire in the Southwest relied on scattered garrisons and missions to keep the Indians under control and "usefully" occupied.

The agreement initialed today requires only that the Afghans keep the peacekeeping force apprised of which barracks soldiers are garrisoned in.

Militarily, the Protestants could keep the places they were still holding in August 1597 as strongholds, or places de sûreté, for eight years, the expenses of garrisoning them being met by the king.

One of the colonial garrisons was stationed in the home of the minister, Benjamin Rolfe, who had barred the door in an attempt to keep the raiders out.

Garrison duties kept the 64th in Surinam for the next nine years meaning that the regiment played no further part in the Napoleonic Wars.

Large garrisons and emergency legislation kept the Poles down.