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• In more peaceful times he had assisted many of the ladies of the cantonment in childbirth.
• Dressed in women's attire and a nose-pin errantly positioned on one nostril, 38-year-old Shahzadi adjusts her 'dupatta' (scarf) over her head as she enters the office of Cantonment Board Clifton, a provincial government bureau that recently hired her. Global Issues News Headlines
• This wooded and beflowered park was laid out in the heart of the cantonment in 1864.
• Lord Carrington, the British foreign secretary, hoping thereby to preserve a white cantonment, floated the idea of partitioning South Africa just before Nelson Mandela was released from prison.
• The British developed the cantonment towns of Meerut, Kanpur, Agra and Allahabad after 1857.
• Locals point out several villas in the city's leafy colonial cantonment that are occupied by mysterious Chinese businessmen.
• Like Delhi, almost all big Indian cities have inherited cantonments, the colonial military stations.
• Upon their arrest Ershad and his wife were moved from the Army cantonment and confined to a diplomatic compound.
• The journal of Captain Cooke states that the battalion marched from Fort Leavenworth, which was then called a cantonment, and, strange to say, had been abandoned by the Third Infantry on account of its unhealthiness. The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway
• The cantonment was a poor place for a garrison to be, without proper defences, with its principal stores outside its walls, and some of the principal officers - Burnes himself, for example - quartered two miles away in Kabul City. Flashman