Sentence examples for was a garrison from inspiring English sources

It was dangerous, since Juba was a garrison town controlled by the northern forces, as locals here were reminded this week when dozens of old shells and mortar bombs buried by Khartoum's army were removed from the site of the independence celebrations.

Roman Towcester (Lactodorum) was a garrison town on the Watling Street, and the street has played a major role in its history ever since.

Canterbury was a Garrison City, and the local Friars Cinema used to hold a "Friday night is Military Night", where all the troops were allowed in at half price.

General Schuyler, at Albany when he received word of Ticonderoga's fall, immediately rode to Fort Edward, where there was a garrison of about 700 regulars and 1,400 militia.

He was involved in the various Charbonnier plots, and agreed to go to the city of Belfort, where there was a garrison of French troops, and assume a major role in the revolutionary government.

The only British military presence on the island was a garrison of about 450 men from the Royal American Regiment under the command of Lieutenant Colonel George Etherington, most of whom were poorly trained recruits and about half of whom were unfit for duty.

There is a garrison of seventy M.P.s.

Now it is a garrison town swarming with government troops in crisp new uniforms, driving shiny trucks mounted with 50-millimeter guns.

The city is a garrison town, home to a huge contingent of Malian soldiers, raising the question of how so many could have been killed under their noses.

Abbottabad is a garrison town – Bin Laden had been within a few hundred yards of a military academy, but the army wasn't roused even though the Seals spent 40 minutes on the ground.

The place: Limerick is a garrison town that took up rugby to take on the Brits and Munster is intimidating for visiting teams, from the Thomond roar to the absolute hush that falls on every kick at goal.