"Arrival of the dean fleet", showing the garrison ofMalta in 1565 and theOttoman invasion force.
Agarrison is any body oftroops stationed in a particular location, originally to guard it. The term now often applies to certain facilities that constitute amilitary base or fortified militaryheadquarters.A garrison is usually in acity,town,fort,castle,ship, or similar site. "Garrison town" is a common expression for any town that has a military base nearby. The term garrison comes from theFrenchgarnison, itself from the verbgarnir, "to equip".
"Garrison towns" (Arabic:أمصار,romanized: amsar) were used during theArab Islamic conquests of Middle Eastern lands byArab-Muslim armies to increase their dominance over indigenous populations.[1] In order to occupy non-Arab, non-Islamic areas, nomadic Arab tribesmen were taken from the desert by the ruling Arab elite, conscripted into Islamic armies, and settled into garrison towns as well as given a share in thespoils of war. The primary utility of the Arab-Islamic garrisons was to control the indigenous non-Arab peoples of these conquered and occupied territories, and to serve as garrison bases to launch further Islamic military campaigns into yet-undominated lands. A secondary aspect of the Arab-Islamic garrisons was the uprooting of the aforementioned nomadic Arab tribesmen from their original home regions in theArabian Peninsula in order to proactively avert these tribal peoples, and particularly their young men, from revolting against the Islamic state established in their midst.
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In 18th-centuryNewfoundland and Labrador, garrisons served as important components of colonial life. Some garrisons reached a peak of 300 men during theFrench and Indian War. In times of peace, only a few dozen soldiers would staff the garrison.[3]Nine garrisons was a system employed by theMing dynasty that was meant to defend the northern border of the great wall.
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