military camps
Soldier housing sites
Military camps are temporary or semi-permanent installations where armed forces are stationed, trained, or housed.
The term covers everything from basic training facilities to forward operating bases in combat zones.
Historically, armies established camps during campaigns: The troops broke military camp at dawn.
The phrase also appears in discussions of detention: prisoners held in military camps.
- cantonmentPermanent military station
- barracksSoldiers' residential building
- drillHole-boring device
- basic trainingInitial military instruction
- tentsPortable fabric shelters
garrison · watchtowers · guard duty · command posts · field hospitals · colonial forts · bunkers · razor wire · staging area · outpost · combat zone · mess halls · armories · forward operating base · stockade · latrines · parade grounds · soldiers
- military historybattles, soldiers, campaigns, officers, battlefields
- Caesar's GaulJulius Caesar, Gaul, Gallic Wars, legions, Roman legions
- East Asian Warfarebattles, warriors, soldiers, generals, infantry formations
- Roman BritainHadrian's Wall, Londinium, Roman forts, Roman roads, Roman occupation
- Roman warfarelegion, cohort, centurion, Caesar, testudo
- War of 1812War of 1812, Andrew Jackson, Battle of New Orleans, Fort McHenry, Lake Erie
military campsresidential neighborhoods
Areas where people dwell
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military campsprivate residences
Personal living quarters
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military campsurban centers
Densely populated municipal areas
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