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	Garrison Texas in Nacogdoches County, home of the Garrison TX Bulldogs highschool football team.
		The City of Garrison, Texas is the "best of both worlds" and offers all the benefits and warmth of small town living, plus the added advantage of quick access to larger metropolitan areas, such as Nacogdoches, Center, Carthage and Henderson.
		Garrison, on U.S. Highway 59 eighteen miles northeast of Nacogdoches in northeastern Nacogdoches County, was established about 1884.
		On August 29, 1884, Garrison and William Craig conveyed 125 acres to the railroad.
	www.garrisontx.com (530 words)

	Garrison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the military, garrison is the collective term for the body of troops stationed in a particular location, originally to guard it, but now often simply using it as a home base.
		Garrison town is a common expression for any town that has a military barracks.
		A garrison is also a fortified house generally built of logs; it was not uncommon in early New England settlements, particularly during the French and Indian Wars.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Garrison (223 words)

	TOUL - LoveToKnow Article on TOUL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		That of St Etienne (formerly a cathedral) has a choir and transept of the 13th century; the nave and aisles are of the i4th, and the faade, the finest part of the building, of the last half of the 15th.
		Toul was forced to yield for a time to the count of Vaudmont in the 12th century, and twice to the duke of Lorraine in the 15th, and was thrice devastated by the plague in the 16th century.
		In 1700 Vauban reconstructed the fortifications of the town.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TO/TOUL.htm (787 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: GARRISON, TX
		Garrison is on U.S. Highway 59 eighteen miles northeast of Nacogdoches in northeastern Nacogdoches County.
		Garrison claims to be the oldest incorporated community in Nacogdoches County since the corporation of Nacogdoches was interrupted around 1900.
		By 1896 the town was known as a health resort and had a population of 500.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/GG/hjg2.html (530 words)

	The Scotsman - UK - Garrison town in shock at deaths of British soldiers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Garrison town in shock at deaths of British soldiers
		Of the 100,000 people who live in the Essex town, 10,000 are service personnel and their dependants, or civilian support staff.
		Councillor Chris Hall, the mayor of Colchester, said: "The soldiers of the Colchester Garrison and their families are a significant part of the community and as a result there is a great sense of sorrow in the borough for those who have lost their lives.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /uk.cfm?id=695652003 (581 words)

	Garrison, Utah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The first settlers in the area that would later become known as Garrison were youngsters.
		Garrison was named for Emma D. Garrison who was the first postmaster.
		Garrison, Utah is a small agricultural community in beautiful Snake Valley.
	www.greatbasinheritage.org /garrison.htm (366 words)

	Vocal Abolitionism and TheGenius of UniversalEmancipation
		Though Garrison was a vocal writer on all sorts of issues before this time, his views on slavery were vague and without the emotion that would mark later years.
		Garrison in particular sought to understand the motivations of a man who was obviously poverty-stricken and constantly facing challenges in professing his beliefs and running his paper.
		Eventually, Garrison was able to pay his fine off after seven weeks due to the generosity of Arthur Tappan, a New York philanthropist, who had learned of Garrison's situation from the pamphlet that Garrison had published while in jail.
	www.sujal.net /cities/vocal.html (1517 words)

	Fire & Sword Rules (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Roll 1d6 for each garrison town in the revolting region, and 1d6 for each Anglo-Egyptian force that is not in a garrison town.
		If the roll is equal to or less than the modified surprise chance, the town is captured by surprise and its garrison is lost, or the force outside a town is overwhelmed and destroyed.
		If the garrison town is reoccupied while the region is still in revolt, the siege resumes.
	home.comcast.net /~theangle/FireSwrd/FireSword.htm (2779 words)

	RiverWatchOnline
		When Garrison's embankment was completed in 1954, it was 2.5 miles long and 210 feet tall, the fifth-largest earthen dam in the world.
		Garrison Dam, a sloped embankment 212 miles long, is so vast and so much a part of the landscape that Brian Keith Russell didn't realize he was driving on top of it when he went looking for the subject of his
		Garrison's big payoff was to be the hydropower and especially the mammoth irrigation projects it enabled: 1,007,000 acres of cropland, mostly far away in northern and eastern North Dakota, that were to be watered by 6,773 miles of canals.
	www.prairiepublic.org /features/riverwatch/news/forum/06_09_03.html (2051 words)

	CITY GARDELEGEN - History / Military and Garnison
		This period of the garrison-history of the town Gardelegen ended in 1806 with the final marching off of the infantry-regiment 27 against the troops connected with Napoleon.
		The end of the “big war” in 1919 meant the dissolution and the repeated end of the garrison town Gardelegen.
		The history of the garrison town Gardelegen ended with the dissolution of the “border-troops of the DDR“ and with the departure of the after-sovjet occupation-troops in the beginning of the nineties.
	www.gardelegen.info /uk/geschichte_militaer.htm (316 words)

	Tobruk; Australian toughness beats Rommel
		News that the garrison had been relieved was received in Australia with joy, but it was joy tinged with disappointment that the heroic band was not to have the supreme reward of marching out to share the triumph of the Imperial troops in their second drive across Libya.
		This, then, was the fortress town to which the AIF was to cling through the heat in blinding sandstorms of a North African summer - a poisonous thorn in the flank of the enemy.
		Throughout the siege the AIF garrison operated with a perfect team work that ran from the front-line soldier, back through his immediate headquarters to the artillery, back to the higher formations, to the supply and ordnance workshops, and to the hospitals.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-battles/ww2/tobruk.htm (1984 words)

	SHEERNESS - LoveToKnow Article on SHEERNESS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		, a garrison town and naval seaport in the Faversham parliamentary division of Kent, England, in the Isle of Sheppey, on,the right bank of the Medway estuary at its junction with the Thames, 51 m.
		Blue Town, the older part of the town, with the dockyard, is defended by strong modern-built fortifications, especially the forts of Garrison Point and Bartons Point, commanding the entrance of both the Thames and the Medway.
		The dockyard, chiefly used for naval repairs, covers about 6o acres, and consists of three basins and large docks, the depth of water in the basins ranging down to 26 ft. Within the yard there are extensive naval stOres and barracks.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SH/SHEERNESS.htm (237 words)

	Schinkelzentrum der TU Berlin
		The architecture of this garrison town represents the zenith of pre-industrial building construction and architecture at the end of the 18th century.
		The unique qualities and significance of this ideal planned fortress town have been overlooked because of the inconceivably cruel historic circumstances during the Second World War, when the fortified garrison town of Terezín/Theresienstadt was abused as a ghetto for destruction of the Jewish population of Central Europe.
		The centre of the town is the rectangular parade square, which is dominated by the Church, the Commander's House to the left and the Priest's House and School to the right.
	www.schinkelzentrum.tu-berlin.de /projekte/gede/tere_eng.html (1973 words)

	Towns
		Towns can be defended through the building of fortifications, walls, arrow towers, and a moat, and by filling their garrisons with defending troops, which may be lead by garrison stationed heroes.
		Additionally, a hero visiting a town will lend their army to the town's defense, forcing an attacker to fight the visiting hero's army before facing the town's garrison forces.
		When a hero visits a town, their troops may be traded with those found in the town's garrison.
	homepage.mac.com /rogue27/help/HelpPages/Towns.htm (1705 words)

	Arras
		The town was closely linked to the trade of Flanders and later became an important centre for sugar beet farming and processing and became a prosperous market centre.
		During the First World War, Arras was near the front a long series of battles nearby are known as the Battle of Arras in which a series of medieval tunnels beneath the city, unknown to the Germans, became a decisive factor in the French holding the city.
		In the Second World War the town was occupied by the Germans and 240 suspected French Resistance members were executed in the Arras citadel.
	encycl.opentopia.com /term/Arras (343 words)

	New Hampshire Forts: page 2
		The Thomas Lund Garrison was east of the Daniel Webster Highway on the north-side of (?) Brook.
		A town garrison or blockhouse was here for the protection of the settlers of Salem-Canada, the original name of the settlement.
		The town was attacked by Indians in 1750, with the fort built afterwards.
	www.geocities.com /naforts/nhwest.html (1559 words)

	The Town - Garrison History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		She led the tribesmen against the virtually defenceless colonia and the town was sacked and burned.
		The town was surrounded by a wall during the 2nd century.
		The garrison as we now understand it dates effectively from this time and it soon began to contribute to social life of the town.
	www.colchester2020.com /garr_hist.htm (1328 words)

	The fortress town of Terezin - 01-12-2004 - Radio Prague (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The town is mainly associated with the horrors of the Holocaust, when the Nazis turned it into a ghetto for tens of thousands of Jews from across Europe.
		The town was built from 1780-1790 in a style that was very modern for the time, after the French school of Mezieres, to serve as a northern defence point for the Austrian Empire against the Prussian Army.
		For one hundred years, the town was only a garrison town, with a capacity for 50,000 soldiers.
	www.radio.cz /en/issue/60844 (1719 words)

	Garrison Minnesota History - Brainerd Lakes Area Chambers of Commerce
		One of the first settlers to reside in the Mille Lacs Lake area was Oscar E. Garrison, a land surveyor and civil engineer.
		The town within Garrison township was known as "Rowe," in honor of Gib Rowe who lived nearby, and and "Mille Lacs," obviously after the large lake who laps on it's border.
		The Garrison post office was established in 1884, and from that point on, the town was called Garrison.
	www.explorebrainerdlakes.com /community/city/gar/history.htm (120 words)

	The Silk Road
		Zhangye, the capital of Zhangye province was founded in 121 BC as a garrison town, has a bell tower in the town centre.
		Jinquan, which is a growing industrial town, was founded in 111 BC as a garrison town, Between 127 and 102 BC, the Han emperors relocated about 980,000 peasant families as paramilitary peasants including at least 700,000 victims of the flood in Shandong.
		The charming Springs Parks at the edge of the town was built as a memorial to General Huo Qubing who is once said to have been given a barrel of wine by the Han emperor Wudi as a reward for having gained a decisive victory over the Xiongnu.
	www.regit.com /regitour/china/intplace/silkroad.htm (814 words)

	History intro. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The town's shipwrights constructed 263 vessels for the Royal Navy, ranging from gunboats to battleships and including 5 Royal Yachts.
		The town's development continued in an age when governments encouraged local authorities to provide yet more amenities and services, improving the quality of life.
		In this period, colourful street processions were a memorable feature of town life, often celebrating the opening of schools or public buildings.
	www.pembrokedock.org /history.htm (596 words)

	The conquer of the Dutch New Guinea, 1942 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The town was important because of his rich oilfields in the vicinity.
		The Dutch garrison commander, KNIL Captain J.B.H. Willemsz Geeroms, took the command of approximately 60 Dutch militiamen and 17 native soldiers and retreated into the jungle to fight a guerilla war against the Japanese troops.
		The small town of Moemi (situated south of Ransiki) was in pre-war time a post for the civil admistration of the area.
	www.geocities.com /dutcheastindies/new_guinea.html (2412 words)

	Notes for Nelson Garrison
		The town of Garrison was incorporated in 1880.
		By 1910 Garrison had grown to a population of over 500 and was one of the flourishing stations on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific line in Benton County.
		In September 1911 the town of Garrison was almost destroyed by fire.
	jgarrison.allhyper.com /nti02340.htm (460 words)

	Veteran Antonio Giachinta Honored by Town Board Town negotiations to permanently acquire Capuchin property in final ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		At the November 6 meeting of the Philipstown Town Board, Councilman Richard Shea, during a Building and Land Acquisition committee briefing, said that talks to obtain the deed from Open Space Institute were in their final stages.
		Garrison School Board member Anita Prentice addressed the Board regarding the ongoing dispute between the school and St. Basil Academy.
		The PCN&R prints LEGAL NOTICES for: Putnam County, The Town of Philipstown, The Town of Putnam Valley, Village of Cold Spring, Village of Nelsonville, the Haldane Union Free School District and the Garrison Union Free School District.
	www.pcnr.com /news/2003/1112/Front_Page/055.html (1148 words)

	Stranorlar...the Garrison Town
		Although the rhyme is nothing more that a peoples' simple way of distinguishing their home towns of long ago, there's also a bit of history attached to it.
		Casual visitors to the Twin Towns could be excused for thinking that both towns probably came into being at the same time.
		The town was also an administration centre, having the military, the revenue police, the courthouse/gaol, the schools and the pound.
	www.finnvalley.ie /history/twintowns/stranorlar.html (516 words)

	Aldershot News and Mail Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He thanked Garrison Radio for its live broadcast throughout the day, the News and the Mail for advertising the day and the town centre management and retailers who organised the event and donated prizes.
		Town centre manager Jenny Rawlings said: “It was a very good turnout, given the weather.
		This is the sixth year that the town centre management has organised the event and the first year it has actually rained on the parade — it usually rains before or afterwards.
	www.aldershot.co.uk /story.asp?intid=2172 (302 words)

	The Garrison & Town
		Surrounding the Palance and the temple district of Pi'ramesse is its supporting town, located in time in the 19th Dynasty.
		There is a large garrison, both for city defense and for gathering troops for one or other of the Ramissid pharaohs' military engagements.
		On the outskirts of town, and in those places where there are no docks directly providing access to the Nile to the townspeople, there are rich fertile farmlands, swept to a great distance in this flat delta land, by the yearly innudations of the Nile.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Places/Place/424595 (452 words)

	Thomas Hardy Country : The Dorchester of Hardy's Youth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		town, a garrison town, and the county town of Dorset, with all the hustle and
		Dorchester, as county town, was the center of all things judicial in Dorset.
		The town was fully equipped with gallows and a hangman who lived in a cottage which
	members.aol.com /thardy1001/dorch.html (811 words)

	Theresienstadt
		The town was originally built in 1780 by Emperor Joseph II of Austria and named after his mother, Empress Maria Theresa.
		For the next several decades, the garrison town of Terezin remained virtually the same, almost entirely separated from the rest of the countryside.
		The largest and most serious problem they faced was metamorphosing a town which in 1940 held approximately 7,000 residents into a concentration camp which needed to hold about 35,000 to 60,000.
	www.chgs.umn.edu /Histories__Narratives__Documen/Theresienstadt/theresienstadt.html (2227 words)

	Battle of Berber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Turn 3: Safieh churned through the muddy water, and a second cheer broke from the town as Bordein, towing a barge filled with the fellahin of the 2/2 brigade, rounded the bend in the river.
		Back at the town, two men on the southern wall were overrun by the red flag fanatics, three of whom got inside.
		The town garrison, 1/ 4 Egyptian infantry, lost an NCO and 13 men.
	home.comcast.net /~theangle/Berber/berber.htm (1883 words)

	Garrison - Official Website of the Town of Garrison Texas in Nacogdoches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Memorial website tribute to Garrison from the Garrison family, has a history, an extensive discography, and photos of Garrison playing bass, including one
		Garrison and Sisson, Inc., is a Washington, DC-based attorney recruiting/search firm that recruits top-credentialed lawyers and practice groups at all levels
		The Gilman Garrison House, described in 1719 as "the old logg house," was The Gilman Garrison House is three blocks ahead, just after a small bridge.
	www.allsitemap.com /asm/garrison.html (186 words)

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