garrison

Object

fort: Were these forts ever fully garrisoned throughout their occupation?

Converse of object

• reinforce: In the event she was sent in June to Gibraltar with a convoy of troops to reinforce the garrison there.
• relieve: Several attempts to relieve the garrison were made throughout the early part of 1916.
• withdraw: These guns were dismantled in 1869 and the garrison finally withdrawn in 1875.

Adjective modifier

• besieged: Trance Tower Garrison Who is the Companion trying to reach in the besieged garrison?
• Parliamentarian: Meanwhile, Prince Rupert is ordered to attack the Parliamentarian garrison at Brentford.
• beleaguered: To a beleaguered garrison a holiday may be fatal.
• military: We had also hit hard twenty four military garrison.
• permanent: In the Old Town you will find Fort Jesus, the permanent garrison built by the hapless Portuguese.
• parliamentary: For much of the Civil War Warwick was a parliamentary garrison.

Modifies a noun

• commander: The Argentine garrison commander in Port Stanley surrendered on 14 June.
• fort: Following this episode, a number of garrison forts were established along the eastern boundary of the Delta to monitor the movement of foreigners.
• town: In a garrison town like Windsor the problem was even more acute.
• troop: The contribution of the garrison may not exceed the DV + EW; any extra garrison troops don't count.
• duty: At the beginning of 1794 the regiment was sent from Newry to garrison duty in the South.

Noun used with modifier

• royalist: It then withstood five months of siege, before becoming the penultimate Royalist garrison on the British mainland to surrender.
• army: It had no military significance except for the presence of an Italian army garrison.

Preposition: of

• troop: There they find a garrison of troops, also affected, have murdered one another.
• soldier: Do we need a garrison of soldiers in York?

Preposition: by

troop: At the time of the 1745 Jacobite Uprising Castle Stalker, still held by the Campbells, was garrisoned by some 60 government troops.