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Garrison :: Garrison (v. t.) To place troops in, as a fortification, for its defense; to furnish with soldiers; as, to garrison a fort or town..

Station :: Station (n.) A place calculated for the rendezvous of troops, or for the distribution of them; also, a spot well adapted for offensive measures. Wilhelm (Mil. Dict.)..

Contest :: Contest (v. t.) To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend; as, the troops contested every inch of ground..

Casemate :: Casemate (n.) A bombproof chamber, usually of masonry, in which cannon may be placed, to be fired through embrasures; or one capable of being used as a magazine, or for quartering troops..

Parade :: Parade (v. t.) An assembly and orderly arrangement or display of troops, in full equipments, for inspection or evolutions before some superior officer; a review of troops. Parades are general, regimental, or private (troop, battery, or company), according to the force assembled..

Muster :: Muster (v. t.) To collect and display; to assemble, as troops for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like..

Auxiliary :: Auxiliary (a.) Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops.

Tirailleur :: Tirailleur (n.) Formerly, a member of an independent body of marksmen in the French army. They were used sometimes in front of the army to annoy the enemy, sometimes in the rear to check his pursuit. The term is now applied to all troops acting as skirmishers..

Squadron :: Squadron (n.) A body of cavarly comparising two companies or troops, and averging from one hundred and twenty to two hundred men..

Troop :: Troop (n.) A company of stageplayers; a troupe.

Sort :: Sort (n.) A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals..

Picket :: Picket (n.) A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket..

Escalade :: Escalade (v. t.) A furious attack made by troops on a fortified place, in which ladders are used to pass a ditch or mount a rampart..

Panic :: Panic (a.) A sudden, overpowering fright; esp., a sudden and groundless fright; terror inspired by a trifling cause or a misapprehension of danger; as, the troops were seized with a panic; they fled in a panic..

Blockade :: Blockade (v. t.) The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies; as, the blockade of the ports of an enemy..

Mask :: Mask (v. t.) To cover or keep in check; as, to mask a body of troops or a fortess by a superior force, while some hostile evolution is being carried out..

Ambush :: Ambush (v. t.) A concealed station, where troops or enemies lie in wait to attack by surprise..

Inspect :: Inspect (v. t.) To view and examine officially, as troops, arms, goods offered, work done for the public, etc.; to oversee; to superintend..

Troopbird :: Troopbird (n.) Any troupial.

Fraise :: Fraise (v. t.) To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward..

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