Sentence examples for local garrison from inspiring English sources

Lt. Col. Denis, chief of the local garrison took over.

At the time, Saleh was stationed in Yemen's commercial capital, Taiz, where he commanded the local garrison.

Coalition authorities were now requesting that the Afghan commander of the local garrison hand over details about the soldier's identity and his references, he said.

Following a group of populist rebels from Marseilles from their conquest of a local garrison through their march to Paris (they sing and discuss the song en route), Renoir presents, in effect, a band of troubadours with flintlocks.

In that year, the citizens of Damascus and the local garrison of Janissaries revolted against governor Mehmed Selim Pasha, who took refuge in the citadel.

Word of the attack spread when one of the Lachine survivors reached a local garrison, three miles (4.8 km) away, and notified the soldiers of the events.

They were flogged for disobedience, captured if they tried to flee, and sometimes raped by soldiers of the local garrisons.

However, sieges and skirmishes rather than pitched battles dominated the military landscape in England during the first Civil War, as local garrisons, determined to destroy the economic basis of their opponents while preserving their own resources, scrambled for territory.

The high participant number from Nangahar may be associated with two different factors: proximity to Kabul, enabling potential recruits to come to KMTC rather than recruitment through local garrisons, and instability in western Pakistan may have displaced Afghan families whose sons were employed or students in Pakistan, resulting in need for stable employment.

They reinforced a local French garrison of 150.

The attacks, close to each other, struck a busy market inside the Lahore cantonment, home of the local army garrison.