encampment

• When your encampment is at the vicinity of a ravine, marshes forested hills and thick undergrowth, you should comb these areas because these are the places where enemy troops or spies normally hide. —  Sun Tzu's The Art of War
• But once outside the borders, the Army encampment was a matter of hours away, and the wholesale rescue of the maharaja's remaining "guests" would be their concern. —  The Game--Laurie King--Mary Russell 07
• The order of the encampment was the order of battle, for a night attack; and as every man slept opposite to his post in the line, there was nothing for the troops to do, in case of an assault, but to rise and take their position a few steps in the rear of the fires around which they had reposed. —  Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet
• The spot of our encampment was an island formed by a branch of it parting and re-entering it again: the owner had used it for rice. —  The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I
• One school of thought has it that the encampment was at Queen's Creek on the north side of the Lower Peninsula, near the York River. —  Charlottesville Blogs

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