cantonment
IPA: kˈæntʌnmʌnt
noun
- Temporary military living quarters.
- A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters.
- (India) A permanent military station.
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Examples of "cantonment" in Sentences
- The cantonment is the head quarters of the British army on this side the Deccan.
- Muyange is so far the only so-called cantonment camp that is operational thus far in Burundi.
- Near what was to have been the main portion of the cantonment was the school of pistol instruction and beyond this the six-pounder gun school and tank fighting zone.
- His son John was born in the small thatched-roofed, mud-walled cantonment, which is even to-day eighty miles from the nearest railway, in the heart of a scrubby, tigerish country.
- There is quite an eminence nearly a mile back of the new cantonment, which is called La Butte de Terre by the French, and Wudjuwong, [18] or Place of the Mountain, by the natives.
- The journal of Captain Cooke states that the battalion marched from Fort Leavenworth, which was then called a cantonment, and, strange to say, had been abandoned by the Third Infantry on account of its unhealthiness.
- The road from Dearsley's pay-shed to the cantonment was a narrow and uneven one, and, traversed by three very inexperienced palanquin-bearers, one of whom was sorely battered about the head, must have been a path of torment.
- The cantonment was a poor place for a garrison to be, without proper defences, with its principal stores outside its walls, and some of the principal officers - Burnes himself, for example - quartered two miles away in Kabul City.
- On May 17, 1917, Col.I. W. Littell, of the Regular Army, was detailed to assemble and direct an organization to be known as the cantonment division of the Quartermaster Corps, whose duties were to consist of providing quarters and camps for the training and housing of the New
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