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	Jefferson Barracks: The Early Years :: Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Jefferson Barracks became such an installation, and at the same time an integral part of the history of the St. Louis area, providing military and economic stability for the westward expansion of the United States.
		In July 1826, the construction of barracks for two infantry regiments began, despite the fact that title to the approximately 1,800 acres of land was not obtained from the local farmers until August.
		At the east end of each barracks and the west end of the parallelogram were smaller buildings, 37 feet by 90 feet, to house the officers.
	www.nps.gov /jeff/jefferson_barracksearly.html (681 words)

	Barracks - WoWWiki
		Barracks are large, fortified structures that offer training and housing for the many warriors in the Alliance.
		It is within the barracks’ walls that footmen are taught the art of shield defense.
		Barracks were used by High Elves that helped fend off Arthas as he tried to attack theircapital Silvermoon and Quel'thalas in Warcraft III by producing fighting units.
	www.wowwiki.com /Draenei_Barracks (570 words)

	1983 Beirut barracks bombing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1983 Beirut barracks bombing was a major incident during the Lebanese Civil War.
		In the attack on the French barracks, 58 paratroopers were killed and 15 injured.
		Along with the U.S. Embassy bombing, the barracks bombing prompted the Inman Report, a review of the security of U.S. facilities overseas for the U.S. Department of State.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombing (1164 words)

	History of the Barracks
		A brass plaque with a short history of the Regiment and Barracks was unveiled in 1959 on the 200th anniversary of the battle of Quebec by the 16th Duke of Norfolk who had himself served in the 4th Bn.
		The Barracks are strategically situated on a piece of high ground to the north of the city and in 1642 Gen Sir William Waller used this same ground to form his troops prior to the siege of Chichester.
		The Barracks were intended for use by a major unit of the British Army and it is understood that French POWs were initially employed on the construction of some of the first wooden huts in 1803.
	www.army.mod.uk /rhqrmp/barracks_history/index.htm (2476 words)

	Victoria Barracks (Sydney)
		Victoria Barracks in the Sydney suburb of Paddington is one of the best-known examples of military architecture in Australia.
		The majority of the barracks was constructed, using locally quarried sandstone, between February 1841 and April 1848 and the outer walls in the ensuing two years.
		Between 1931 and 1936 the barracks was home to the Royal Military College of Australia and from July 1938 to July 1940 it also housed the Command and Staff School.
	www.awm.gov.au /units/place_1101.asp (184 words)

	Ruthven Barracks Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
		The impressive and nicely proportioned mound on which Ruthven Barracks stands is said to be a natural leftover of the retreat of the glaciers at the end of the last ice age.
		Ruthven Barracks was one of them, and all remains of the earlier castle were removed to make way for the structure you see today.
		The stables, standing slightly to the west of the rest of the barracks, were built in 1734 to house 28 horses for dragoons.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /kingussie/ruthvenbarracks (702 words)

	Barracks
		British Army barracks, as opposed to Naval or Marine barracks, are named on the basis of various principles, usually depending on the whim of the units resident there at the time of the naming ceremony.
		In a major military encampment, say, for example, where a number of different unit barracks are co-located in one area, it used to be the practice that each one would be named after a battle in the same general campaign or area of operations.
		In the case of the Barracks in the Ruhr area taken over by 43rd Welsh Division in 1945 (mainly former Luftwaffe flak kasernen) they were named after the home towns of the Territorial Army regiments in the division.
	www.dawodu.com /barrack3.htm (2068 words)

	Carlisle Barracks, USA • History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		President George Washington journeyed to the Barracks to review the troops - perhaps as many as 10,000 - gathered to face the "whiskey rebellion." The crisis was posed by farmers in southwestern Pennsylvania who refused to pay a tax on the commercial whiskey they distilled from their corn crops.
		Carlisle Barracks hosted the Army's small but elite mounted force, the forerunner of the Armor School now at Ft. Knox, Ky., when the School of Cavalry Practice was established in 1838.
		On April 20, 1871, Carlisle Barracks was officially "discontinued as a sub-Depot for the Mounted Recruit Service." The installation was now available for the next in its history.
	carlislebarracks.carlisle.army.mil /sites/about/history.asp (1386 words)

	Marine Barracks
		Historical Society of Washington, DC The oldest continually active post in the Corps, the Marine Barracks served as Marine Corps Headquarters from 1801 to 1901.
		Troops quartered at the Barracks played significant roles in the wars with the Barbary pirates, the War of 1812, the Seminole War, the capture of John Brown at Harper's Ferry, and the conquest of Cuba in the Spanish-American War.
		Burrows chose the current location of the Barracks and chose English architect George Hadfield, who also designed Arlington House, as the architect of the Barracks and the Commandant's House.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/wash/dc89.htm (350 words)

	St. Louis, MO - Jefferson Barracks Park Fact Sheet
		Jefferson Barracks was established in 1826 as the major military installation west of the Mississippi at a time when the frontier was being settled.
		Later, the Barracks was a major medical facility for the Union Army and a primary ordnance depot for Federal troops during the Civil War.
		The 1st regiment of the U.S. Dragoons, a precursor of the Cavalry, was formed at Jefferson Barracks for frontier service in 1833, and in 1837, the Barracks served as a rendezvous point for U.S. regulars and Missouri volunteers for the Seminole War in Florida.
	explorestlouis.com /factSheets/fact_jeffersonBarracks.asp?PageType=4 (1685 words)

	Pentagon Barracks
		Not wanting to be under the rule of Spain, the citizens of the West Florida Territory revolted and in September of 1810 raised the flag over the fort declaring their independence and announcing the birth of the Republic of West Florida.
		A major expansion of the post was made in 1819-1823 when new barracks were built and a large Arsenal Depot was established to serve the southwestern United States.
		Today the Pentagon Barracks houses the offices of the lieutenant governor, the Pentagon Barracks Museum and Visitors Center, and private apartments for state legislators.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/louisiana/pen.htm (457 words)

	TCYorktown Barracks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The Barracks Management Branch of TCYorktown's Facilities Engineering Division is directly responsible for the administration, material condition, and good order and discipline in the barracks.
		Students attending "A" schools are not permitted to have alcoholic beverages in the barracks.
		If there are any problems with barracks rooms, contact the Barracks Monitor on the first floor or see the CMAA in room 150.
	www.uscg.mil /tcyorktown/Reporting/barracks.shtm (1172 words)

	Barracks
		The barracks is built on a raised platform with an arched support structure.
		Additionally, because the floor of the gatehouse is 2 bricks higher, two steps were added between the gatehouse and the barracks to bridge this vertical gap.
		Entrance to the barracks is via a ladder and a trap door.
	www.baylug.org /ninja/original/Barracks/Barracks.html (185 words)

	Cemeteries - Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery - Burial & Memorials
		Although Jefferson Barracks was formally established as a national cemetery in 1866 by passage of a join resolution, the first burial, at what is now Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery is believed to have occurred the year after the post’s founding, on Aug. 5, 1827.
		In 1870, the cemetery “quadrangle” at Jefferson Barracks measured approximately 750’ x 1,230’, and was surrounded by a standardized wooden picket fence “recently whitewashed.” Within two years this fence was replaced by a stonewall 4,269 feet long and 1’-6” wide.
		The next year Jefferson Barracks was categorized as a “First Class” cemetery, an Army designation based on “the extent and importance” of the facilities, which also determined the superintendent’s salary of $75 per month.
	www.cem.va.gov /CEM/cems/nchp/jeffersonbarracks.asp (3349 words)

	The Sonoma Barracks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The two-story, wide-balconied, adobe barracks facing Sonoma's central plaza was built to house Mexican army troops under the command of General Vallejo.
		Actual construction of the adobe barracks building probably took place in stages, but was more or less completed in 1840 and '41.
		Thereafter the barracks were used by various U.S. military forces starting with the 50 men who made up Company "B", California Battalion Mounted Riflemen commanded by Lt. Joseph Revere, an officer in the U.S. Navy.
	www.napanet.net /~sshpa/sbarracks.htm (369 words)

	Women of Ravensbrück - Life in the Barracks
		Life in the barracks became increasingly more difficult with the rising population of the camp.
		They returned to their assigned barracks for their noontime soup and again in the evening, when the soup was repeated, On Sundays the women were not required to work, and socialized in the barracks or outside to the limited extent possible.
		Overcrowding in the barracks became more severe after the arrival of 12,000 Polish civilians in August 1944 and the beginning of evacuations from Auschwitz.
	www.chgs.umn.edu /Visual___Artistic_Resources/Women_of_Ravensbruck/Life_in_the_Barracks/life_in_the_barracks.html (214 words)

	Plattsburgh Barracks, Plattsburgh New York by James P. Millard
		"The barracks for the enlisted men were erected in 1838-'40, and consist of a building two and a half stories high, 200 feet long by 26 feet wide, containing eighteen rooms.
		In the eastern end of this building, four rooms on the lower floor are set apart for the use of the hospital department, and are occupied as office, dispensary, ward-room, and kitchen.
		The arrangement of the barracks and hospital is shown in Figure 11.
	www.historiclakes.org /Plattsburg/barracks.htm (1889 words)

	Barracks - Buffalo Soldiers - Presidio of San Francisco
		The men could see the Artillery and the 9th Cavalry troops over at the Presidio's main post with their good barracks, reading room, gymnasium, and so forth.
		The contrast with the cantonment's humble barracks caused discontent."
		Based on this letter, it appears that the 9th Cavalry men lived on the Main Post in either the brick barracks along Montgomery Street (shown above), which were new and very near the gymnasium, or in the older Civil War-Era wood barracks known as the Cavalry Barracks at that time (shown below).
	www.nps.gov /goga/prsf/history/buffalo_soldiers/barracks.htm (217 words)

	Interior of Barracks in Dachau Concentration camp
		They were a far cry from the old barracks which had been the worker's quarters in the old gun powder and munitions factory which was converted into a concentration camp on May 22, 1933.
		These barracks were built to last for 10 years, by which time the Nazis anticipated that they would no longer need concentration camps for their political opponents.
		After 1942, although no additional barracks were ever built, the prison compound had at least 12,000 prisoners, who had to live in barracks designed for only 5,000 men.
	www.scrapbookpages.com /DachauScrapbook/KZDachau/barracks02.html (818 words)

	Fulwood Barracks, Home of The Regiment
		It was the last and largest of a chain of barracks built in the North West in the wake of the Chartist riots of the 1830's.
		Permanent barracks were required and twenty acres of the available Duchy land at Fulwood were eventually selected and staked out in 1839.
		December 1898 the Depot of The East Lancashire Regiment moved into Fulwood from Burnley Barracks, which was in a poor state of repair, and occupied the block on the west side of the Infantry Square (the present Brigade Headquarters building), while the Loyals concentrated on the east side.
	www.army.mod.uk /qlr/fulwood_barracks.htm (1320 words)

	CNN.com - Mutinous PNG soldiers seize barracks - March 11, 2002
		All commissioned officers and their families have fled the barracks, which houses the Second Royal Pacific Islands Regiment, which consists of four rifle companies.
		Senior defense commanders are en route to the barracks Monday in a bid to quell the mutiny.
		The armed soldiers would man the main gate to the barracks to prevent officers returning for the next seven days (from Saturday) until the government gave the rebels a satisfactory response to their grievances, the spokesman is quoted as saying.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/03/11/png.mutiny/index.html (311 words)

	Old Barracks Museum: General Information: Memberships
		The Trenton Barracks, erected in 1758 at the expense of New Jersey's own colonial assembly, is the only remaining military structure to stand as witness, not only to the American Revolution, but the French and Indian War, defining events in the history of North America and the world at large.
		During the American Revolution, in 1777, the Barracks was one of the structures converted for use as a military hospital, where soldiers underwent inoculation against smallpox.
		Purchased in 1902 by a group of patriotic women, the Old Barracks was one of the earliest historic preservation efforts in the state, opening as a museum in 1903.
	www.barracks.org /general/members.html (318 words)

	Barracks
		The Bassawa Barracks in Zaria was originally named after Bassawa, a former slave village belonging to the Mallawa family of Zaria.
		Adaka Boro Barracks at Eleme is named after Isaac Jasper Adaka Boro, an indigene of Kaiama, Bayelsa State, former student of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and staff of the University of Lagos.
		David Ejoor Barracks in Effurun, near Warri is named after Major General David Akpode Ejoor (rtd), former Chief of Staff (Army), first Military Governor of the former Midwestern Region, and Urhobo indigene of the Delta area.
	www.dawodu.com /barrack4.htm (10700 words)

	Campbell Barracks
		The caserne was formally renamed Campbell Barracks on 23 August 1948 in memory of Staff Sergeant Charles L. Campbell, 14th Infantry Regiment, 71st Infantry Division, who was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross post-humously for extraordinary heroism.
		The CENTAG headquarters re-turned to Campbell Barracks in December 1980, occupying offices in buildings 3, 5, and 7 (with an office for the CENTAG Chief of Staff in building 1).
		Next to the en-trances to most buildings on Campbell Barracks, representations of soldiers from various periods of German history are carved in the red sand-stone.
	www.history.hqusareur.army.mil /campbell_barracks.htm (6661 words)

	Johnson Barracks - Fürth, Germany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The buildings that would be named Johnson Barracks were taken by the US Army in May of 1945 and named in memory of Pvt Eldon H. Johnson, a member of the 15th Infantry, 3rd Infantry Division.
		From 1970 until 1992 The 16th Engineer Battalion occupied Johnson Barracks, at which time the unit moved to Bamberg and like all the rest of the military kasernes in the Nürnberg Area the buildings were given back to the German Government.
		This part of the website is being built to provide former and present military personnel and their dependents that were once stationed at Johnson Barracks a place to get in contact with each other, their German friends and share their comments and photos.
	johnsonbarracks.nurnbergmilitaryarea.com (355 words)

	Sierra Leone: President: Wilberforce Barracks Project Inaugurated
		The Wilberforce Barracks, which is the largest Barracks in the country, constructed during the colonial period had suffered neglect and abandonment over the last few decades.
		The Wilberforce project, he observed, was another approach employed to raise the working and living conditions of the Barracks which will in turn have a positive and lasting effect on those who lived there and eventually improve the operational capability of the RSLAF.
		He said that a similar project is going on simultaneously at the Murray Town Barracks, and with additional funding of 100,000 US dollars from the UNDP, similar projects will be replicated at Benguema, Juba and Kenema.
	www.statehouse-sl.org /wilb-barracks-sept27.html (670 words)

	Vancouver Barracks Cemetery Index
		The present Vancouver Barracks reservation was formerly the location of the Hudson Bay Company's principal depot in the Pacific Northwest (1825-1846) until 1849 when it became a U.S. Reservation and has had a continuous Federal ownership.
		Wood for the Bannock Treaty in 1878 and as an instructor for the Bannock tribe children incarcerated with adults at Vancouver Barracks in 1879.
		This is an index of the persons buried at Vancouver Barracks, researched by Robert and Ruth Crouch, in cooperation with Mr.
	www.geocities.com /Eureka/4458/vanbar.html (967 words)

	The King's Troop RHA - St John's Wood
		During this period, no stables were built in the barracks and the 78 horses on the Establishment's strength had been housed in a hired stable outside.
		Opinion of this barrack block was not high as can be seen from the report of a Committee of Inquiry, written only twenty three years after their completion, which stated, "though of recent construction, these barracks do not exhibit those advantages in healthy structural arrangements that might have been anticipated, and.
		St John's Wood Barracks, as they stand today were completed-in 1972, the only parts of the old buildings to remain being the Riding School and the Officers' Mess.
	www.army.mod.uk /kingstprha/st_johns.htm (990 words)

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