The cantonment was established in 1806, from which date the town grew rapidly in size and population.
In 1886 the fort of Gwâlior and the cantonment of Morâr were surrendered by the Government of India to Sindhia in exchange for the fort and town of Jhânsî.
About four miles from this place, down the river, the Indian line meets the Missouri at right angles; this is the frontier of the Indian territory, which the Cantonment is destined to protect.
Troubles came thick and fast upon him and he had barely reachedCantonment Davis before they began.
The fortifications erected there received the name of Cantonment Davis and upon them, in spite of Pike's decidedly moderate estimate in the beginning, the Confederacy was said by a contemporary to have spent "upwards of a million dollars.
He had difficulty in getting such of his brigade as was Indian and as had collected at Cantonment Davis, a Choctaw and Chickasaw battalion and the First Creek Regiment, to stir.
Biswa is a large town, well situated on a good soil and open plain, and its vicinity would be well suited for a cantonment or seat for civil establishments.
The soil, too, is good; and the place, on the whole, is well adapted for the cantonment of a much larger force.
Now, this honest gentleman had ascertained that the utmost that could be got from the cantonment authorities, if they purchased, would be 2,000 Rs.
Neither do I think that the ordinary humdrum details of Indian life in cantonment would repay perusal.
He tell Burra General Saib give order, and cantonment General Saib give order what I do.
Ask the cantonment Adjutant for help; he can, I dare say, find some unoccupied building, or can obtain the use of tents.
When the calling hours came round they had a charming little narrative for their friends, which flew round the cantonment like wildfire, to the intense delight of the hearers as well as reporters.
On the morning after the halt, the march was resumed, and in a week the regiment reached the cantonmentof Secunderabad.
The cantonment Adjutant lingered behind to whisper to the Doctor: 'Don't be uneasy; you'll see this will be only a flash in the pan.
They did so in the first cantonment ever marked out, so we are told,' observed Captain W.
The camp was pitched at Siah Sung; but that site would not answer for a cantonment for many reasons detailed by Sturt in his public letter, which I propose appending to my Journal.
Regiment, for a plan, from recollection, of the cantonment and forts.
When the rear guard left cantonments, they were fired upon from the cantonment then filled with Affghans.
Dum-Dum, the military cantonmentof Calcutta, to see a battalion of his old regiment, the 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers, quartered there.
Cawnpore may be described as a dreary plain, across which in dotted lines run the cantonment barracks, whilst clouds of dust trace the numerous roads which intersect it in all directions.
Later in the afternoon we went to the cantonment to see some tent-pegging by the Fourth Bengal Native Cavalry.
You know how these cantonment delegations wander around town aimless when they're dumped down here on leave waiting to be shunted off quiet onto some transport?
In itself this cantonment was most insecure; but General Elphinstone threw a bridge over the river so as to render the communication between the Seeah Sung camp and the cantonment still more easy.
Any Cantonment servant can write down the name of any citizen of the Cantonment on a chit of paper and ask him to appear the next day in court.
Since his arrival, the poor Indian population of the town of Amhala Cantonment has been living under a regime of horror and tyranny.
The low stone buildings and corral in the right centerground probably are part of the original structures of Cantonment Tongue River.
Looking forward to a pleasant winter, the name "Cantonment New Hope" was applied to the embryo fort.
The trials which he endured during that first winter at Cantonment New Hope were only harbingers of greater difficulties which were to bring to him the death of a frontier martyr.
National Intelligencer an "Extract of a letter from a gentleman of the expedition to the Falls of St. Anthony, to his friend in Washington, dated Cantonment of the 5th regt.
When the Fifth Infantry built its cantonment on the Minnesota River there were no other habitations in the neighborhood.
In the fall of 1819 when the temporary cabins at New Hope Cantonment had been built, the soldiers began ploughing for the crop of the next summer.
Once during that memorable six months", runs the account of one of the inhabitants of Cantonment New Hope, "the roof of our cabin blew off, and the walls seemed about to fall in.
Expeditions and Indian duties occupied his attention during the next few years, and in May, 1827, he established "Cantonment Leavenworth" on the west bank of the Missouri River.
Here is the cantonment of Sikraul, no longer of much military importance, and the suburb of Sigra, the seat of the chief missionary institutions.
Bellary is an important cantonment and the headquarters of a military division.
Belgaum contains a cantonment which is the headquarters of a brigade in the 6th division of the western army corps.
So, abruptly, the bazaar ended, and the cantonment church showed its spire above some stunted trees.
The cantonment magistrate looked at him doubtfully; he was almost too suave, too sensible.
He came with a summons for the Nawab-sahib Jehan Aziz to attend at once at the cantonment police-station.
Her Ladyship, our old acquaintance, is as much at home at Madras as at Brussels in the cantonment as under the tents.
In addition, each cantonment has a rifle range, drill, parade, and maneuver grounds of about 2,000 acres.
There was no European force whatever to keep the city and cantonment in check beyond thirty British gunners, but this number would have been ample had there been no scare about greased cartridges.
When the Sikh regiment at the cantonment was scattered by a discharge of grape, the Sikh guards at the treasury might have revenged the slaughter by firing at the Europeans on the roof.
That same afternoon the British returned as conquerors to the old cantonmenton the Ridge.
Six miles from Lahore was the cantonment of Mian Mir, where three regiments of Bengal sepoys were quartered, together with one regiment of Europeans, and two batteries of European artillery.
The Bengal sepoys in the cantonment were disaffected, but there was no sign of insurrection in the city.
But Shah Shuja was jealous of the presence of British soldiers, and they were lodged in a cantonment three miles from the city, with no defence beyond a low mud wall which horsemen could gallop over.
At the other end of the cantonment were the European barracks, in which a European force was quartered strong enough to have routed four times the number of sepoys.
So long as they remained staunch, the brigadier might hope to defend the city and cantonment against the mutineers from Meerut.
The whole cantonment might have joined in the mutiny, and the civil stations in the country round about would have been in sore peril.
The European residents had been greatly alarmed at the revolt at Delhi, for both the town and the cantonment were absolutely at the mercy of the sepoys.
The sepoy regiments in the cantonment were the only cause for alarm.
A signal was thereupon to be given to the cantonment at Mian Mir, on which the sepoy regiments were to break out in mutiny, murder the officers, and environ and overwhelm the regiment of Europeans.
Without a moment's delay, a secret plot was formed between the sepoys in the fortress at Lahore and those in the cantonment at Mian Mir for the slaughter of Europeans.
The ball set rolling from the arsenal at Dumdum soon assumed monstrous dimensions in the cantonment at Barrackpore.
Steam to the forsaken cantonment of Stanley and cross the island, and tell me whether you have seen anything so wild and wonderful in its way as the scenery.
The houses are not cantonment bred in any way--nor did the uneven ground and dusty reddish roads fit in with any part of the Indian Empire except it may be Ootacamund.
There was grass in the soldierly straight roads, and some of the cross-cuts had never been used at all since the days when the cantonment had been first laid out.
Meerut was only forty miles from Delhi, and the largest cantonment in India.
One of the three sepoy regiments was on duty in the city; the other two remained in the cantonment on the Ridge.
The British cantonment was situated on a rising ground about two miles from the city, which was known as the "Ridge.
He defeated an advance division of the enemy, and then marched to the Ridge and reoccupied the old cantonment which had been abandoned on May 11th.
They preferred booty to battle, and turned aside to plunder the cantonment and city, murdering every Christian that came in their way, not sparing the houses of their own countrymen.
Brigadier Graves did his best to protect the city and cantonment until the arrival of the expected Europeans from Meerut.
On the way up I passed a cantonment of Senegalese.
A group of soldiers, enjoying a brief holiday from the trenches in a cantonment near the field, straggle forward and gather timidly about the airplane, listening open-mouthed for what its rider is about to say.
Yet it was not in the Cantonment that Hartley expected to find any clue to the vanished Absalom: it was down in the native quarter.
It was a bare, barn-like Church, for the wealth of the Cantonment had flowed in the direction of the Cathedral.
Such was the state of things which Probyn found when, after an interval of four days, he rode into the cantonment accompanied by a lieutenant and an ensign of the Tenth.
Sir George Parker, the cantonment magistrate, complained of sickness and headache, accompanied by a sensation of drowsiness and oppression, which gradually deepened into insensibility, and thence into death.
