Garrisons

Examples

• It would be better to have the garrisons engaged there added to Butler's command. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This would keep him between our garrisons in East Tennessee and the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The small garrisons were drawn from the various towns and fortresses, and went to swell the main army. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The lines of rifle pits at each place extended back from the water at least two miles, so that the garrisons were in reality only seven miles apart. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He had start enough to move north destroying the railroad in many places, and to attack several small garrisons intrenched as guards to the railroad. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Numerous as the people are in the several old provinces, they cost you nothing in forts, citadels, garrisons, or armies, to keep them in subjection. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The road to Chattanooga was still well guarded with strong garrisons at Murfreesboro, Stevenson, Bridgeport and Chattanooga. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• We had garrisons at Donelson, Clarksville and Nashville, on the Cumberland River, and held the Tennessee River from its mouth to Eastport. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The garrisons at Gibraltar and Minorca, accordingly, have never been neglected. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Not counting the sick, the weak and the garrisons for the captured city and fort, the moving column was now less than ten thousand strong. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Garrisons of full citizens were set up at strategic points, and colonies with variable privileges established amidst the purely conquered peoples. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• These defences proved therefore to be mere traps for their garrisons. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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