0 present participle of garrison --
1 to put a group of soldiers in a place in order to live there and defend it: --
Troops are garrisoned in the area.
This decrease was partly due to garrisoning supply centres, but disease, desertions, and casualties sustained in various minor actions caused thousands of losses.
Common instructions included helping establish staging posts and warehouses, serving as laborers in a new colony, or garrisoning a fledgling fort.
The regular soldiers took over the garrisoning of various militia forts, rebuilding and re-arming many of them.
The garrisoning of places like that could be done much better by landing parties than by expensive infantry battalions which ought to be in our field force.
One was the garrisoning of our oversea possessions and naval bases.
Is it then the necessity for garrisoning the vast number of places abroad which we have under our control?
They would then be faced with garrisoning their conquests: an indefinite and difficult commitment.
This means substantial—and, above all, trustworthy—armed forces garrisoning the island, which may be a little more difficult than is supposed.
