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2007-03-23 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Fred 2007-03-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 'cantonment' area? wtf?

Posted by Unique Battle 2007-03-23 11:00|| 2007-03-23 11:00|| Front Page Top

#2 I think the writer meant "landed in the cantonment," where the Pakistani troops are barracked, Unique Battle. They inherited their military vocabulary from the British; had they spoken proper American, they'd have called it a base, just like we do. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2007-03-23 12:09|| 2007-03-23 12:09|| Front Page Top

#3 From Wiki: A cantonment is a temporary or semi-permanent military quarters, typically in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Many cities in the Indian subcontinent, such as Ahmedabad, Belgaum, Bangalore, Ambala,Bathinda, Delhi, Pune and Rawalpindi, contained large cantonments of the former colonial British army. The word cantonment is derived from the French word canton meaning corner or district [1]. While in the 18th and 19th Century cantonments were viewed as semi-permanent, by the turn of the 20th Century they became permanent garrisons, and were further entrenched as such via the military reforms of Lord Kitchener in 1903 and the Cantonments Act of 1924.[2]

Posted by Steve 2007-03-23 14:49|| 2007-03-23 14:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Thought it was a typo. Thanks Trailing Wife and Steve.

Posted by Unique Battle 2007-03-23 23:33|| 2007-03-23 23:33|| Front Page Top

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