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GARRISON , originally a See also:

term for stores or supplies, also a See also:defence or See also:protection, now confined in meaning to a See also:body of troops stationed in a See also:town or fortress for the purpose of defence. In See also:form the word is derived from O. Fr. garison, See also:modern guerison, from gukrir, to furnish with stores, to preserve, but in its later meaning it has been confused with the Fr. garnison, the See also:regular word for troops stationed for purposes of defence. In See also:English " garnison " was used till the 16th See also:century, when " garrison " took its See also:place. In the See also:British See also:army " garrison troops," especially " garrison See also:artillery," are troops trained and employed for garrison See also:work as distinct from See also:field operations.

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