GARRISON  , originally a See also:

• TERM

term for stores or supplies, also a See also:

• DEFENCE
• DEFENCE (Lat. defendere, to defend)

defence or See also:

• PROTECTION

protection, now confined in meaning to a See also:

• BODY

body of troops stationed in a See also:

• TOWN

town or fortress for the purpose of defence . In See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form the word is derived from O . Fr. garison, See also:

• MODERN

modern guerison, from gukrir, to furnish with stores, to preserve, but in its later meaning it has been confused with the Fr. garnison, the See also:

• REGULAR

regular word for troops stationed for purposes of defence . In See also:

• ENGLISH

English " garnison " was used till the 16th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, when " garrison " took its See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place . In the See also:

• BRITISH

British See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army " garrison troops," especially " garrison See also:

• ARTILLERY (the O. Fr. artiller, to equip with engines of war, probably comes from Late Lat. articulum, dim. of ars, art, cf. " engine " from ingenium, or of artus, joint)

artillery," are troops trained and employed for garrison See also:

• WORK

work as distinct from See also:

• FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
• FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
• FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
• FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
• FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
• FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
• FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
• FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
• FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
• FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
• FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)

field operations .