Some of those garrison soldiers hadn't done any real fighting in years.

The garrison soldiers won't even come out here after dark.

By 1754 there were 1,733 civilians in addition to 3,000 garrison soldiers and their 1,426 family members, bringing the total population to 6,159.

On the rifle-platform above, the soldiers of the garrison stood looking down at us.

Too many years as a garrison soldier , he told himself.

She watched as the soldiers of the garrison prepared for the coming sortie.

Only sixty soldiers of the garrison remained at this point, and they thus accepted a call to surrender.

Every able-bodied man was armed, fighting alongside the soldiers of the garrison.

The garrison soldiers stared at the war-leader, who broke the arrow in two.

An hour later the soldiers of the garrison fell upon the village, killing, looting, raping.