The Collaborative International Dictionary
Garrison \Gar"ri*son\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Garrisoned; p. pr. & vb. n. Garrisoning.] (Mil.)
To place troops in, as a fortification, for its defense; to furnish with soldiers; as, to garrison a fort or town.
To secure or defend by fortresses manned with troops; as, to garrison a conquered territory.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: garrison)
Usage examples of "garrisoned".
These once mighty strongholds were known to be in dispair, moldering, and weakly garrisoned, yet equipped with enough cannon, shot, and other munitions to enable the Americans at Cambridge to maintain their siege.
The Prussian Hussars, left with a battalion of infantry to garrison the northern half of Charleroi, waited as French infantry reached the town and garrisoned the houses on jhe river's southern bank.
The fortress was refortified and garrisoned, its name was changed to Fort Pitt (in honor of William Pitt), and it became the nucleus of the future community of Pittsburgh.
In an earlier letter to Howe (July 2) he had written, “Ticonderoga reduced, I shall leave behind me proper engineers to put it in an impregnable state, and it will be garrisoned from Canada, where all the destined supplies are safely arrived.
At the time, it was garrisoned by 750 New York militia, who were fiercely determined to resist the impending siege, though they were vastly outnumbered and had few provisions, little powder, and ammunition that did not always match their guns.
Over the next six weeks, Fort Watson, Fort Motte, Orangeburg, Georgetown, and other garrisoned forts (as well as Augusta, on June 5) fell into American hands.
There were also entrenchments at a mill near the head of Wormley Creek, and on the extreme right, beyond the ravine on the riverbank, was a large star-shaped fort known as the “Fusiliers’ Redoubt,” garrisoned by Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
The French must have sent a battalion to discover whether the farmstead was garrisoned, or else the enemy was merely foraging for firewood, but, whatever their mission, the blue-coated infantry had run into a savage firefight.
Sharpe and Harper trotted towards those Greenjackets, who were occupying a sandpit on the road's left, while the farm on the right was garrisoned by men of the King's German Legion.
Quatre Bras is worth a visit, and though the wood that was garrisoned by Saxe-Weimar has long disappeared, the field is relatively unchanged and is easily found by driving south from Waterloo.
You feel that we should concentrate on the garrisoned towns and cities and ignore the rest.
If the Great God Mota shows up nowhere but in the garrisoned spots it's going to look mighty funny to some intelligence officer among the PanAsians when he gets to fiddling with the statistics of the occupied country.
We'll have trouble enough recruiting and training enough men to set up a temple in each of the garrisoned cities.
No less than sixty-two, including those left standing since the last siege, were erected and garrisoned, and the town was therefore cut off from all communication from without.
The town itself was garrisoned by Germans who still held aloof from the mutiny, but who had been tampered with by him.