The Romans based a garrison here because the Danube flowing right by made transport easy.
Sirte is of unique importance to the regime, both as a garrison and for what it represents.
Quseir Amra is a well-preserved desert castle which acted as both a fortress with a garrison and a residence of the Umayyad caliphs, built in the early 8th century.
Aswan started life here, as a garrison town on the tip of Elephantine Island, before spreading on to the east bank, where it faces the sands of the Western Desert.
Mr. Zulfikar had been due to appear at the High Court in Rawalpindi, a garrison town bordering Islamabad, for a hearing in Mr. Musharraf's trial on charges of involvement in the 2007 assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
Those claims now are greeted with skepticism by many in the U.S. and the global security establishment, given that he was found in a conspicuously large and well-protected house in a garrison town, not far from Pakistan's military academy.
Mr. Zulfikar had been due to appear Friday morning at the High Court in Rawalpindi, a garrison town bordering Islamabad, for a hearing in Mr. Musharraf's trial on charges of involvement in the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
Commanders argue that maintaining certain capabilities, like the state of the art combat hospital at Camp Bastion or the helicopter force leaves them no option but to maintain a garrison that will be measured in the thousands rather than hundreds until very near the end.
Regensburg once was a Roman garrison town and is a celebrated tourist site.
France, which keeps a permanent garrison in the country, was evacuating foreigners, including 170 mostly American children trapped in a mission school.
But the Turkish army is happy to have a place to garrison and train a large number of soldiers.
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Early Australia (ie, Sydney) was exclusively convict, under the control of a military garrison.
As he was speaking to BBC News, a soldier heading north towards Colchester Garrison approached holding a jerry can.
To handle this situation, Brig Mehmood Shah says the government is contemplating forming a permanent army garrison in Swat.
He hired a recent University of Minnesota graduate, Garrison Keillor, who became a hit on the dreary 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. shift.
Brian-Anthony Garrison is a student at NC State University, majoring in English with a language, writing and rhetoric concentration.
And a 17-year-old soldier went missing after falling in a river during a march near Catterick Garrison army base in North Yorkshire.
John de Coupland (male, age range: 12-16), a Page from Berwick Castle Garrison who has no real experience of the horrors of medieval war and hopes in due course to become a knight himself.
They wore a mixture of green and khaki ceremonial uniforms, accessorized by scarlet epaulettes and exaggerated peaked garrison caps that were a hangover from Russian military fashion sense.
He is a featured weekly contributor to Lars Larson's syndicated radio program as well as Greg Garrison's show and a frequent guest on syndicated programs with hosts like: Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Hugh Hewitt, Janet Parshall, and Jim Bohannan.
Garrison Keillor gets a payoff from his Prairie Home show in the form of merchandise royalties and improved sales of his books.
It was an impressive performance for mind and soul, with Mr. Garrison laying down a supple bottom and filling the middle range too.
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The land was adjacent to Nairobi Garrison and was a village with areas for domesticated farm animals, small woods for wood gathering, water streams etc.
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I'm taking a morose tone at this point with Garrison Keillor giving me the snub.
His wife Rebecca, whom he married in 2007 when he was based at Catterick Garrison, paid tribute to him at a news conference on Friday.
"This (garrison) can continue the role of a holding operation to combat remaining pockets of militancy, and at the same time boost the confidence of the civil administration, " he says.
Col Phil Bates, the commander of the Edinburgh Garrison, agreed that the site could provide a reminder of the past.
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The home guard are back on duty at the town's Garrison chapel, where there are plans to establish a military heritage centre.
The launch event began with a performance from 80 members of the West of Scotland and Edinburgh Garrison Military Wives Choirs.
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