Sentences with phrase «garrison town»

At the time of Tworkov's birth, Biala was a large garrison town of the Imperial Russian Army.

It's also Australia's largest garrison town with Australian Defence Force bases and fascinating military history to explore.

The naïve statement that he was «unarmed» when shot is only loosely compatible with the fact that he was housed in a military garrison town, had a loaded automatic weapon in the room with him, could well have been wearing a suicide vest, had stated repeatedly that he would never be taken alive, was the commander of one of the most violent organizations in history, and had declared himself at war with the United States.

Maisie Dobbs returns in a powerful story of political intrigue and personal tragedy: a brutal murder in the British garrison town of Gilbraltar leads the investigator into a web of lies, deceit and danger

Fredricton is the provincial capital, an old riverside garrison town and site of some fine buildings including the Legislative Assembly, Old Government House, the Anglican cathedral with gold dust - flecked windows and streets of houses of every period.

In the 1800s, they were used to confine women in English garrison towns who were thought to be engaged in sex work and to have venereal disease, under a series of Contagious Diseases Acts designed to protect the health of soldiers rather than the prisoner - patients.

The chief Arab influence centered in the garrison towns established after the departure of Qasim in an effort to retain some measure of control over the local rulers.

The first Abbasid Caliph sent an army into Sind to oust the Umayyad governor, and the second Caliph, Mansur, sent another expedition which founded the garrison town of Mansura.

It was much to the personal credit of Paul Keetch, who has died aged 56, that he won the marginal seat of Hereford, the garrison town of the SAS, at the 1997 general election and then held it for the Liberal Democrats through two subsequent elections despite his party's opposition to the war in Iraq and the inevitable implications in a military community.

To maintain their safety and preserve their new way of life, Corozal Town's residents became a garrison town and in 1870, Fort Barlee was built to help safeguard the town and its inhabitants.