The regiment was ordered into quarters at Zarga Maior; from whence it marched, towards the end of December, into cantonments at Brozas.
The ladies and children had been removed from the cantonments to the Residency in the city, which was already occupied by a party of the 32nd foot and two guns.
At night, when our men flung themselves down to rest, the whole sky was lit up with the fire of the Hausa cantonments and of the town.
The cantonments lay to the back of the house on the western slope of the Ridge and on the plain beyond.
Whether the owner thought once more of that expected cloud of dust, or whether he meant to gallop to cantonmentsin hope of getting the order rescinded is doubtful.
She must have escaped with the others, he concluded, as he galloped toward the cantonmentsto see if she were there.
They had come back to cantonments again and were rapidly overtaking the now empty tumbrils going home, for the parade was over.
And on the broad white Mall, dividing the native half of the cantonments and the town of Meerut from the European portion, more than one carriage with a listless, white-faced woman in it dashed by, on its way to see the show.
While I was confined in hospital, the brigade marched and took up their cantonments between Ciudad Rodrigo and Almeida.
We took up our cantonments on this side of the Garonne in the beginning of April.
He was in fact one of the very many French officers, who were detached to the Egyptian army then lying in cantonments in Syria, after its victories over the Turks at Homs and Konieh.
The plains and boxlike bluff around the cantonments had turned to a rich velvet of green.
Shortly he found himself seated on his horse between the wagons, while the denizens of the cantonments swarmed around.
They marched from the cantonments in absolute silence, each man bearing rations and ammunition on his shoulders, while still more was carried in a couple of carts.
The French line of advance upon Brussels, which city Napoleon resolved to occupy, thus lay right through the centre of the cantonments of the Allies.
Much criticism has been expended on the supposed surprise of Wellington's army in its cantonments by Napoleon's rapid advance.
The main body under Brigadier Shelton, with its immense strings of baggage-laden cattle, was moving out of the cantonments during the greater part of the day.
It was said that the abandonment of the cantonments would have been an acknowledgment of defeat, and a triumph to our enemies.
That something was a conjoint movement from the cantonmentsand the Balla Hissar on the Lahore gate of the city.
There was now, indeed, nothing left to him but to negotiate with the enemy, or to suffer the force in cantonments to perish by the slow process of starvation before his face.
A few provisions sent into cantonments by the Sirdars.
Captain Johnson, too, writes that, on receiving in cantonments intelligence of the outbreak, he went to report what he had heard to Captain Lawrence, military secretary to the Envoy.
The provisions in cantonments were almost wholly exhausted.
All the firewood that was laid in for the winter’s consumption expended, and almost every tree in cantonments cut down.
The state of affairs in cantonments was something very grievous to contemplate.
Near the cantonments was the Mission compound, occupying an extensive space, and surrounded by a number of houses and buildings belonging to the officers and retainers of the Mission.
Had they swept on, the cantonments must have fallen before them.
The large cantonments are situated in the neighbourhood of the North-Western frontier, of the large cities and of the capitals of important native states.
Under these circumstances, the greatly reduced force broke up from their cantonments and went into winter quarters.
Roland, unable to provide quarters or commissariat for so large a number, divided them into five bodies, and sent them into their respective cantonments (so to speak) for the winter.
I believe that when the moon rose the men saw they had nothing to fear, and, by twos and threes and half-troops, crept back into Cantonmentsvery much ashamed of themselves.
He was then obliged to go into hospital, and only on the last day of June rejoined his regiment incantonments between Strehlen and Breslaw.
We were on our march from Paris to Amiens, when we were informed, one beautiful morning, that our brigade battery, under Lieutenant Holsche, was in cantonments in the next village.
Each type of building, and every stick and board, ventilator and window sash used therein for all the cantonments were shaped to identical measurements, and produced by the enormous driving power of modern engineering, working under contract.
Much damage was wrought to the railway stations at Thionville, and on Freiburg in Breisgau, the aniline works at Ludwigshafen and the cantonments in the Longuyon region.
An account of the cantonments of the British about New York just before this (Feb.
And now, on the 15th, there rode wearily into cantonments two wounded men, who believed themselves the only British survivors of the Charikar force.
On the morning of the 22d the Afghans were seen moving in force from Cabul toward Behmaroo, obviously with intent to occupy the village, and so deprive the occupants of the cantonments of the resource it had been affording them.
The Afghans occupied the cantonments as portion after portion was evacuated by our people, rending the air with their exulting cries, and committing every kind of atrocity.
On the 9th, owing to the mental and physical weakness of poor General Elphinstone, Brigadier Shelton was summoned into cantonments from the Balla Hissar, bringing with him part of the garrison with which he had been holding the latter post.
The cantonments were abandoned, the whole force was withdrawn into Candahar, and was detailed for duty on the city walls.
It seemed as if pursued and pursuers would enter the cantonments together so closely were they commingled; but the fire from the ramparts and an opportune charge of horse arrested the pursuit.
These are of various sorts, from the great resorts at Aix les Bains, where our soldiers can spend their furloughs, to the hostess houses at the cantonments on this side.
In the United States the training of the new National Army, national guards, and officers in the numerous cantonments and training camps was intensified and hurried.
Bombproof underground quarters for staff and commanding officers were constructed, and these were fitted up so as to provide all the comforts of the winter cantonments of old-time warfare.
He himself took up his residence at Warsaw, and the army occupied cantonments in various towns to the eastward.
The pastoral and the predatory character were strangely blended; and the tented cantonments of the sheep-drivers often bristled into camps of war.
The comparison with the records of the cantonments in this country is even more striking.
The regiment was in cantonments near the northern frontier of India.
When in cantonments other officers had joined, junior to himself; and four or five had been killed during the fighting.
The Ashantis had burnt all the cantonments of friendly natives, but had left the old palace of Prempeh uninjured.
Affairs went from bad to worse with the British force in cantonments outside Cabul, until at last Elphinstone, grievously weakened by disease, could be brought to contemplate no course but abject surrender.
Colonel Ross willingly agreed to his proposal that Nuna should take up her residence in the cantonmentswith Violet, and it was arranged that Reginald should escort his sister there the following day.
It is my desire that you appear at the public banquet as if nothing had happened, and after that return as soon as you can to the cantonments with the despatches which I will deliver to you for Colonel Ross.
The cantonments at Dinapore (properly Dânâpur) are ten miles distant from the great city of Patna.
The cantonments suffered severely from typhoid fever for several years in the latter part of the nineteenth century.
He had a splendid house, and lived in excellent style; and was never so happy as when he had a dozen young men from the Dinapore cantonments living with him.
Still, armed occupation was held of the town of Kabul, cantonments were built for the British regiments and sepoys which formed the garrison, in which the troops passed the winter and summer of 1841 in comfort.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cantonments" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
