Furthermore, the British, being afraid of a landing of French sailors to free the prisoner as at Elba, claimed Ascension Island - up to then uninhabited - to establish a naval garrison there.
Serranilla Bank: currently the site of a Colombian naval garrison; also claimed by Nicaragua, and by Honduras.
Twelve men were landed and discovered that the island had recently been evacuated by the Japanese naval garrison.
In mid 1963, the first naval garrison of 5 officers and 156 sailors arrived in Port Blair.
The first Administrator during World War II was the head of the 16-man British naval garrison on the Island, watching for German submarines.
Brisbane was more vulnerable to naval attack than Sydney or Melbourne as it was just three days' sail from the French naval garrison at Nouméa.
On Clarión, there is a small naval garrison with 9 men.
On March 30, 1847, General Scott left Captain Mayo and the naval garrison under his command to hold Tlacotalpan and Alvarado, of which Mayo was subsequently appointed governor.
Yu-tse-wei Fortress (naval garrison)
Early in the morning of 21 May, he ordered the naval garrison of 1,100 men retire behind the medieval walls of the Haute Ville or "Old Town".