Garrison

(garre-zn.) [From L. garnisio, military stores.] (Mil.) A body of troops detached to guard a citadel, town, or other fortified place. Garrison, WILLIAM LLOYD, an American abolitionist, B. in Ma ., 1804. As a journalist and lecturer against slavery, G. largely contributed to negro emancipation, holding for 22 years the presidency of the Anti-Slavery Society. D. 1879. [s. 396]