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Desperate, he led his army back across the Delaware River through a howling nor’easter on Christmas night to attack the surprised Hessian garrison at Trenton, N.J.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Strategic towns, including Kidal in the desert north, and Kati, a garrison town near the capital Bamako, were targeted in the April 25 and 26 offensive.

From Barron's ● May 6, 2026

Gao is the army's second-largest military stronghold after Kati, a garrison town near Bamako which is home to several senior junta officials and was targeted in the weekend attacks.

From Barron's ● Apr. 29, 2026

The storming of the Bastille reflected fear and miscalculation on both sides: Parisians feared its garrison and cannon would be used against them, while military officers felt vulnerable to mob attack.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

By the time Connington made his descent, his men had gathered the castle garrison and surviving smallfolk together in the yard.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Japan has been steadily fortifying its southwestern islands with missiles and garrisons to defend against attack.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Since 2019, soldiers have shut down some smaller army bases and moved into larger, fortified garrisons known as "super camps" in an attempt to better resist militant attacks.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2025

Last week the RSF captured desert garrisons on the border with Libya held by the Joint Forces.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025

Russia's military presence in Armenia includes garrisons in two locations and an airbase.

From Reuters ● Oct. 25, 2023

He hoped the two new garrisons would make a-difference.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

At any given time through the 1980s, nearly 300,000 U.S. forces would have been garrisoned in around 900 sites, ranging from airfields to communications outposts and housing complexes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

A dramatic musical score—like something out of a Marvel movie—plays loudly over clips of officers entering the windows of the garrisoned building, climbing on their laddered megatruck, and breaking the locks to the doors.

From Slate ● May 4, 2024

When microbes try to invade our body through the nose or mouth, they have to get past the tonsils, lumps of tissue garrisoned by immune cells that help fight off the intruders.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 31, 2023

And we went to the home community in western Ukraine where the brigade was garrisoned before the war, and where many of its families still live.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2023

Only three were now garrisoned, a fact that Mance Rayder knew as well as they did.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

His father, a retired navy man, spent a year in the 1970s garrisoning Philippine-occupied Thitu Island.

From Washington Times ● May 2, 2023

I am not saying that garrisoning South Vietnam with ground troops would have made the war a sensible enterprise.

From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021

One source, the Chandos Herald, says there were 300 men garrisoning the town.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2014

All have stepped up sea and air patrols as well as garrisoning isolated atolls and floating patrol bases.

From Reuters ● Oct. 1, 2012

On its restoration, at the treaty of peace concluded between the two governments in the following year, Spain seriously commenced the work of fortifying the Havana, and defending and garrisoning the island generally.

From History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time by Maturin Murray Ballou