All 3 Uses
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Flags of Our Fathers
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- We were, indeed, the guests of the commander and his small garrison.†
Chpt 1. *
- The Marines suffered a shocking 4,400 casualties in just seventy-two hours of fighting as they wiped out the entire Japanese garrison of 5,000.†
Chpt 4.
- Howlin' Mad observed: "We thought it would blast any island off the military map, level every defense, no matter how strong, and wipe out the garrison.†
Chpt 6.
Definitions:
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(1)
(garrison) a military post or the troops stationed there
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, garrison can be used as a verb to reference the placing of troops at a post.