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How to use cantonments in a sentence

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The entry of vehicles on the roads opposite cantonments has been restricted.
Having grown up in British cantonments as the son of an army officer, I knew how the British lived in India.
The Corps of Engineers built wooden structured training facilities, then called cantonments, throughout the United States.
All the cantonments outside Dhaka became restless and soldiers were contemplating to move towards Dhaka.
The Quartermaster Corps, founded June 1775, was responsible for the construction of training cantonments and more permanent structured camps.
The Sepoys in India in 1857 who rebelled against their British officers often invaded the British cantonments and attacked their women.
The most important element in security sector reform is securing the future of Maoist soldiers residing in cantonments.
Like Delhi, almost all big Indian cities have inherited cantonments, the colonial military stations.
It will also go a long way in erasing the notion that Defence personnel are those who wish to live isolated in cantonments.
Such shenanigans have convinced other political parties that putting arms into containers and guerrillas into cantonments isnt enough.
This included the construction, maintenance and repair of military roads, barracks and cantonments.
Now it is a frontier town, a burgeoning collection of tents and hastily built breeze-block cantonments.
They remain in the interim parliament and their fighters are in the cantonments.
The move back has already commenced and the troops have started moving towards cantonments.
During his meteoric rise there, he worked on building the Pentagon and led the biggest housing project in history, constructing camps and cantonments for our troops.
Instead, U.S. forces generally remain penned up in formidable cantonments.
A peace accord signed in 2006 said that Maoist former guerrillas, who are currently in United Nations supervised cantonments, would be integrated into the national army.
The cantonments, it transpired, were singularly ill-sited for defence, being built on low, marshy ground, overlooked by hills on all sides.
Examples from Classical Literature
We were in India then, in cantonments, at a place we'll call Bhurtee.
They were to be stationed at the dawk Bungalow between the city and Cantonments, to keep up communication between the two.
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