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garrison
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Definition:(a) A body of troops stationed in a fort or fortified town.(b) A fortified place, in which troops are quartered for its security.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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“The head of the garrison at Glogau, with ten thousand men, asks the King of Prussia what he is to do if he is summoned to surrender. . . . All this is absolutely true.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace.
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Ham. Why, then the Polack never will defend it.
Capt. Yes, it is already garrison'd.
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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