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2 unusual facts about Cantonment


Fort Yates, North Dakota

The first US Army post at this site was established in 1863 as the Standing Rock Cantonment with the purpose of overseeing the Hunkpapa and Blackfeet bands, and the Inhunktonwan and Cutheads of the Upper Yanktonais, of the Lakota Oyate.

Winter Quarters

Cantonment, the establishment of temporary military encampments during winter


Abu Osman Chowdhury

When the news of Operation Searchlight reached him in the afternoon of 26 March, he revolted along with his fellow Bengali soldiers and raised the flag of Bangladesh at 4 Wing Quarter of Jessore Cantonment.

Alabama and Gulf Coast Railway

Almost immediately following the completion of this line, another, much longer line was begun, this one from Cantonment north via Atmore and Frisco City, Alabama to an interchange with the Southern Railway at Kimbrough, Alabama.

Andy Mulligan

Andrew (Andy) Armstrong Mulligan, (4 February 1936, Kasauli, a small cantonment town in Solan district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh – 24 February 2001) was a rugby union international who captained Ireland and the British & Irish Lions, playing at scrum-half.

Arlington Farms

In late 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a law to move the Department of Agriculture's Experimental Farm from Arlington, adjacent to Arlington National Cemetery, to its current location in Beltsville, Maryland to allow for an expansion of the military cantonment at Fort Myer.

Bhanwari Kaur

Gokula and his fellow farmers moved further, attacked and destroyed Sadabad cantonment.

Big Sky Bible College

The school utilized the cantonment area of the former Lewistown Air Force Station as its campus; the site is near the ghost town of Maiden, north of Lewistown in the Judith Mountains.

Butt Road Jumma Masjid

Situated at a distance of 13 kilometres from Chennai city and 2 kilometres from Guindy on the Mount-Poonamallee Road, the mosque caters to the Muslim population of the suburb and the nearby cantonment.

Cantonment Burgwin

Cantonment Burgwin (also known as Fort Burgwin) was a fort located at 10 miles (16 km) outside of Taos, Taos County, New Mexico, United States, southeast of Ranchos De Taos.

Cantonment Public School

The school was located in the old center of Karachi at Frere Street, near Saddar, adjacent to the Cantonment Railway Station, Karachi and to the Red Cross, Pakistan, offices.

Christ Church Rawalpindi

The church is situated in Lalkurti in cantonment area on Iftikhar Janjua Road beside PC Hotel.

Colaba

The southern tip is occupied by a military cantonment, including the large Navy Nagar layout built on reclaimed land known as Holiday Camp.

Don Sutton

Sutton attended J. M. Tate High School in Cantonment/Gonzalez, Florida where he played baseball, basketball, and football.

Gabol

In 1845, The Governor of Sindh General Sir Charles James Napier sent his army to shift them in Sindh near Cantonment area so that they could hold peace in the area.

Gokula

Gokula and his fellow farmers moved further, attacked and destroyed the Sadabad cantonment.

History of Islamabad

The British took control of the region from the Sikhs in 1849 and built Asia's largest cantonment in the region in Rawalpindi.

Jhelum Cantonment

There are variety of sports facilities available within the cantonment which include Cricket fields Hockey fields, football fields, Tennis Courts, Squash courts and Swimming Pools are among many other sports facilities that are available.

John Malcolm

It was under this treaty that the British were given the cantonment town of Mhow which is 23 km from Indore.

Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1, Jalandhar Cantonment

Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1, Jalandhar Cantonment popularly known as KV-1, JRC is a government school in Jalandhar Cantonment, Punjab, India.

Lahore Division

It contained 9,869 villages and 41 towns, of which the largest are Lahore (population, 202,964, including cantonment), Amristar(162,429), Sialkot (57,956), Gujranwala (29,224), Batala (27,365), and Kasur (22,022).

Loralai

On the northern side of the town, there exists an old cantonment established before the departure of the British Empire for the purpose of defence against the Russian Empire.

Nasirabad, Ajmer

Nasirabad Cantonment is well connected with railways (Broad Gauge of Indian Railways) and also connected with Golden Quadrilateral of Delhi–Mumbai route.

Pakistan Ordnance Factories

Located 45 km from Islamabad and with main manufacturing facilities at Wah Cantonment, POF is a sprawling complex of fourteen production units and six subsidiaries producing conventional arms and ammunition.

Pallavaram

During the 18th century, the British established a cantonment at Pallavaram, supplementary to the one at St. Thomas Mount.

Ramgarh Cantonment

Rajrappa Temple: 28 km from Ramgarh Cantonment is a panoramic view of the merging of river Bhairavi and Damodar, near Mata Chhinmastika Temple visited by lakhs of visitors and pilgrims every year.

Royal Dragoon Guards

They were subsequently moved Mrkonjić Grad and were employed, primarily in Land Rovers, to monitor former wartime factions and inspect cantonment sites.

Shamsabad, Pakistan

Later Awans, as a caste group, belonging to Ghaznavide armies, settled in Shamas Abad and the village became a small cantonment on the route used by the Ghaznavides from the north-west of India.

Shankar Rao

P. Shankar Rao - Minister and M.L.A from Cantonment constituency

Sialkot Cantonment Airport

Sialkot Cantonment Airport is a small army airport for Mushak and Cessna planes and helicopters in Sialkot, Punjab, Pakistan.

Singapore General Hospital

The Singapore General Hospital was established in 1821, when the first General Hospital was located in the cantonment for British troops near the Singapore River.

Sule Ahman

During the military coup of 27 August 1985, when General Ibrahim Babangida became head of state, Major Sule Ahman lent support in his position in Supply and Transport in the Ikeja Cantonment.

William A. S. Ouderland

He built a friendly relationship with 22nd Baluch Regiment captain Sultan Newaz and penetrated into Dhaka cantonment.


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