Sentence examples for were garrisoned from inspiring English sources

These imperial provinces might be "unarmed," but many of them were garrisoned, some quite heavily.

Although castles existed, they were garrisoned by knights and, increasingly as the century advanced, by the religio-military orders.

The son of Zhou was allowed to organize a subservient state under the close watch of two other brothers of Wuwang, who were garrisoned in the immediate vicinity.

Peter tried to have the officers of the regiments that were garrisoned in the provinces double as local officials, but the experiment failed because of the necessities of war and because regular officers proved incompetent to administer peasants.

This later phase of looting, likely involving heavy machinery and large numbers of laborers, took place as Syrian troops were garrisoned on the site just a few hundred meters away".

Our generous guide begins in the Cumbrian village of Burgh by Sands, where during the third century AD, a unit of north African Roman soldiers were garrisoned in a fort.

It was garrisoned by the French in 1833.

The town was garrisoned by the French against Italian intrusion from nearby Libya.

This fort, still under construction, was garrisoned by U.S. troops under Major Robert Anderson.

The reforms overturned a constitutional stricture against foreign soldiers being garrisoned in Nicaragua, Téllez pointed out.

It stood 12 ft. high, and was garrisoned at six points with cannon.