Editing Garrison

{{Short description|Troops stationed in a particular location}}
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[[File:Siege of malta 1.jpg|300px|right|thumb|''"Arrival of the dean fleet''", showing the garrison of [[Malta]] in 1565 and the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] invasion force.]]

A '''Garrison'''  is any body of [[troop]]s stationed in a particular location, originally to guard it. The term now often  applies to certain facilities that constitute a  [[military base]] or fortified military [[headquarters]].
A garrison is usually in a [[city]], [[town]], [[fort]], [[castle]], [[ship]],  or similar site. "Garrison town" is a common expression for any town that has a military base nearby. The term garrison comes from the [[French language|French]] ''garnison'', itself from the verb ''garnir'', "to equip".

"Garrison towns" ({{langx|ar| أمصار|amsar}}) were used during the [[Early Muslim conquests|Arab Islamic conquests]] of Middle Eastern lands by [[Arabs|Arab]]-[[Muslim]] armies to increase their dominance over indigenous populations.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/med/donner.asp|title=Internet History Sourcebooks Project|website=sourcebooks.fordham.edu}}</ref> In order to occupy non-Arab, non-Islamic areas, nomadic Arab tribesmen were taken from the desert by the ruling Arab elite, conscripted into Islamic armies, and settled into garrison towns as well as given a share in the [[Jizya|spoils of war]]. The primary utility of the Arab-Islamic garrisons was to control the indigenous non-Arab peoples of these conquered and occupied territories, and to serve as garrison bases to launch further Islamic military campaigns into yet-undominated lands. A secondary aspect of the Arab-Islamic garrisons was the uprooting of the aforementioned nomadic Arab tribesmen from their original home regions in the [[Arabian Peninsula]] in order to proactively avert these tribal peoples, and particularly their young men, from revolting against the Islamic state established in their midst.

In the [[United Kingdom]], "Garrison" also specifically refers to any of the major military stations such as [[Aldershot Garrison|Aldershot]], [[Catterick Garrison|Catterick]], [[Colchester Garrison|Colchester]], [[Tidworth Camp|Tidworth]], [[Bulford Camp|Bulford]], and [[London]], which have more than one barracks or [[military camp|camp]] and their own military [[headquarters]], usually commanded by a [[Colonel (United Kingdom)|colonel]], [[brigadier]] or [[Major General|major-general]], assisted by a [[garrison sergeant major]]. In [[Ireland]], [[Association football]] (as distinct from [[Gaelic football]]) has historically been termed the "garrison game" or the "garrison sport" for its connections with British military serving in Irish cities and towns.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://anfearrua.com/ViewSectionDetail.asp?docid=1567|title=An Fear Rua - Garrison, Gallic and Gaelic<!-- Bot generated title -->|access-date=2006-06-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050111114651/http://www.anfearrua.com/ViewSectionDetail.asp?docid=1567|archive-date=2005-01-11|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==History==
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In 18th-century [[Newfoundland and Labrador]], garrisons served as important components of colonial life. Some garrisons reached a peak of 300 men during the [[French and Indian War]]. In times of peace, only a few dozen soldiers would staff the garrison.<ref> [https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/exploration/garrison-life-18-century.php Garrison Life in the 18th Century] 1991, Olaf Janzen. Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage.</ref> [[Nine Garrisons of the Ming dynasty|Nine garrisons]] was a system employed by the ming dynasty that was meant to defend the northern border of the great wall.

==References==
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==External links==
*''Nouveau petit Larousse illustré'', 1952 (French encyclopedic dictionary)

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