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  • Land Office to the Secretary of the Interior, setting forth that under the decision of Mr. Muldrow the tract of land known as the "Cuartel" lot belongs to the United States by conquest and by treaty, and is in a state of reservation for national purposes, and respectfully submitting that Congress may continue its status as fixed by said decision or enact appropriate laws providing for its disposition as public land.

    A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 9, part 1: Benjamin Harrison Benjamin Harrison 1867

  • Interior, providing for the survey and disposal of a tract of land situated in the city of Monterey, Cal., known as the "Cuartel" lot.

    A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 9, part 1: Benjamin Harrison Benjamin Harrison 1867

  • The members of the MacArthur Mission never wore uniform, and their offices were located in a modest building inside the nearby Walled City, in a section called the Cuartel d’España.

    General Ike John S.D. Eisenhower 2003

  • I have just come back from the vast Cuartel, or Barracks, of Vera Cruz.

    Mexico's Army and Ours 2010

  • A thousand meals cluttered the Cuartel, already mildewed and being eaten by cockroaches and stray cats; woven cloth and manufactured footgear sufficient for ten thousand poor were destined for the flames.

    Mexico's Army and Ours 2010

  • Amador at once ordered his carriage and drove to the Cuartel de Chiriquí, the barracks of the Colombian garrison, a large pale building by the seawall, facing onto the Plaza Chiriquí.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • But as the afternoon wore on, with still no sign of his troops, Tobar grew increasingly suspicious and finally demanded to be taken to military headquarters at the Cuartel, where he promptly assumed command.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • Amador at once ordered his carriage and drove to the Cuartel de Chiriquí, the barracks of the Colombian garrison, a large pale building by the seawall, facing onto the Plaza Chiriquí.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • But as the afternoon wore on, with still no sign of his troops, Tobar grew increasingly suspicious and finally demanded to be taken to military headquarters at the Cuartel, where he promptly assumed command.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • Knives are drawn at the very beginning of a squabble, and scarcely an evening passes without one or two bodies of men killed in these drunken mêlées being carried to the Police Cuartel in the great square.

    Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

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