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(Redirected from Caserns) Military barracks in a garrison town
Caserne St-Henri, Montreal

A casern, also spelled cazern or caserne, is a military barracks in a garrison town. In French-speaking countries, a caserne de pompier is a fire station.

In fortification, caserns are little rooms, lodgments, or apartments, erected between the ramparts, and the houses of fortified towns, or even on the ramparts themselves; to serve as lodgings for the soldiers of the garrison, to ease the garrison, in Portugal and Brazil "Quartel" (derived for 4 faces).

There are usually two beds in each casern, for six soldiers to lie, who mount the guard alternately; the third part being always on duty.

Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChambers, Ephraim, ed. (1728). "Caserns". Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1st ed.). James and John Knapton, et al. p. 166.

References

  1. Les gens de guerre à Saint-Julien-du-Sault, J Crédé, Imprimerie Fostier, 1976 (in French)


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