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  • The abducted children (as young as eight) were usually raised in barracks ( 'Cantonments') under brutal conditions designed to break their Jewishness.

    In Those Days The Story of an Old Man Jehudah Steinberg

  • The abducted children (as young as eight) were usually raised in barracks ( 'Cantonments') under brutal conditions designed to break their Jewishness.

    In Those Days Steinberg, Jehudah 1915

  • Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Pamela E. BRIDGEWATER embassy: 24 4th Circular Rd. Cantonments, Accra mailing address: P.O. Box 194, Accra telephone: [233] (21) 741-000

    Ghana 2008

  • Ghanachief of mission: Ambassador Pamela E. BRIDGEWATER embassy: 24 4th Circular Rd. Cantonments, Accra mailing address: P.O. Box 194, Accra telephone: [233] (21) 741-000

    Diplomatic representation from the US 2008

  • Cantonments are most frequently used when, during the winter, or other considerable period of inactivity, it is necessary to distribute an army over a large district of country, so as to guard a number of points.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • Cantonments, and during his absence there were some matters which he had decided to leave unreservedly in the hands of Shiraz.

    The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery Marjorie Douie

  • Dawn was breaking, the pale, still hour that is often the hour of death; and a cool breeze rippled in the date palms and in the flat green leaves of the rubber plants, and the festoons of succulent green growths that climbed up the houses of the Cantonments, and dawn found the Rev. Francis Heath sleeping quietly.

    The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery Marjorie Douie

  • I there severed my connection with the Hudson Bay people and proceeded to Cantonments Stevens in the Walla Walla valley, Occupied by two companies of the First Dragoons and two of the Ninth Infantry, U.S. army, under the command of Col.E. J. Steptoe.

    Recollections of Wm. Craig 1918

  • Colonel Ross-Ellison's bungalow in Cantonments and took the road to the city.

    Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913

  • Roy, on reaching Cantonments, was relieved to find that the decision had already been taken to regain control of the city by a military demonstration in force; eight hundred troops and police, under the officer commanding Lahore civil area.

    Far to Seek A Romance of England and India Maud Diver 1906

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