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Usage examples of garrisons.

Until these forces should arrive it was obviously best that the three armies should wait, for, unless there should be pressing need of help on the part of the besieged garrisons or imminent prospects of European complications, every week which passed was in our favour.

Natal force, with the exception of garrisons for Pietermaritzburg and Durban, would have assembled, with a reserve of another sixty thousand men in the colony or on the sea ready to fill the gaps in his advance.

Government, made considerable armaments, and the latter had consequently taken steps to provide corresponding reinforcements to the British garrisons of Cape Town and Natal.

As a general statement it may be said that during the months to come there was no British garrison in any one of the numerous posts in the Transvaal, and in that portion of the Orange River Colony which lies east of the railway, which was not surrounded by prowling riflemen, there was no convoy sent to supply those garrisons which was not liable to be attacked upon the road, and there was no train upon any one of the three lines which might not find a rail up and a hundred raiders covering it with their Mausers.

With some two thousand miles of railroad to guard, so many garrisons to provide, and an escort to be furnished to every convoy, there remained out of the large body of British troops in the country only a moderate force who were available for actual operations.

On him, as on all other commanders, the vicious system of placing small garrisons in the various towns imposed a constant responsibility lest they should be starved or overwhelmed.

The garrisons of all the towns in the south-west of the Orange River Colony had been removed in accordance with the policy of concentration, so De Wet found himself for the moment in a friendly country.

I can call another eight hundred or a thousand each from the garrisons at Carse and Tulan, though to do so would strip them fully.

He said that the King was agreed, for he understood the need of maintaining the garrisons of the North and West.

Heavily armed companies of foot soldiers attacked during the night, before the snows had melted, taking the garrisons by surprise.

Order Barons Bellamy and Tolburt to strip their garrisons and take ship for Crydee at once.

They must have overwhelmed one of the garrisons to have broken through.

Even should the Tsurani bring ten thousand fresh troops, he can call up more soldiers from the outlying garrisons in Yabon, fully another two thousand.

A few of the smaller garrisons have been raided, but there is nothing to indicate a spring offensive here.

There was much celebrating among all the men in the garrisons, both Tsurani and LaMutian.