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The military installation from which troops are commanded and orders are issued; the military unit consisting of a commander and his support staff.

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The center of an organization's operations or administration.

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A place of concentrated activity or influence.

Damian's headquarters is in Texas for now.

After showering and dressing, he wrote a short note explaining he would be at police headquarters until midmorning and slipped it under her door.

No one knew of any next of kin to notify and Dean and Sackler were back at headquarters before four.

In addition to these corps there are eight permanent cavalry divisions with headquarters at Paris, Lunyule, Meaux, Sedan, Reims, Lyons, Melun and Dole.

Prince Andrew reached the general headquarters of the army at the end of June.

It was located around the corner from headquarters and he was early anyway.

Clermont-Ferrand is the seat of a bishopric and a prefecture and headquarters of the XIII.

On the evening of October 11 Seslavin came to the Aristovo headquarters with a French guardsman he had captured.

She was going to headquarters for the belongings but I told her Saturday is your day off and the things were still here.

I called police headquarters.

He first went to take possession of the old Lydian capital Sardis, the headquarters of the Persian government on this side of the Taurus, and the strong city surrendered without a blow.

Jenn waited until he disappeared as he Traveled to the White God's headquarters.

Welcome to our headquarters.

Five miles from Norfolk and with Norfolk as its headquarters was held from the 26th of April to the 30th of November 1907 the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition, celebrating the first permanent English settlement in America at Jamestown, Virginia.

On the failure of this attempt he left Austria and joined the headquarters of the Prussian army (1813), and became a member of the board of administration for north Germany.

It is the headquarters of the Sikh religion, containing 264,329 Sikhs as against 280,985 Hindus and 474,976 Mahommedans.

It is the see of a bishop, the seat of the district prefecture and a tribunal, and the headquarters of the territorial militia corps, having besides a large number of regular troops in garrison.

Rustichuk is the headquarters of a military division and of a naval flotilla stationed on the Danube.

It is the headquarters of the second army division.

From Wittenberg he fled, April 1549, to Magdeburg, making it the headquarters of rigid Lutheranism.

Everyone at headquarters was still under the spell of the day's council, at which the party of the young had triumphed.

I turned off the recorder and left to drive to police headquarters.

Jule Transported himself back to Damian's headquarters.

Detective Hunter pointed out the sights as they left the air­port and drove toward the center city police headquarters.

Dean tucked the list in his pocket and walked the short dis­tance around the corner to Police Headquarters.

Here the efforts of Dr Alem succeeded in supplying a large body of rebels with arms and ammunition, and he was able, by a bold attack, to seize the town of Rosario and there establish the revolutionary headquarters.

Bela, which was founded in 1802 as a cantonment, became a district headquarters after the mutiny.

In 210 B.C. this important place, the headquarters and treasure city of the Punic army, was stormed and taken with great slaughter by P. Scipio.

It is the see of a bishopric and headquarters of an important military district, having an arsenal and military barracks.

For purposes of naval organization the Italian coast is divided into three maritime departments, with headquarters at Spezia, Naples and Venice; and into two comandi militari, with headquarters at Taranto and at the island of Maddalena.

The Sacred College having decided to hold the conclave abroad, Crispi assured them of absolute freedom if they remained in Rome, or of protection to the frontier should they migrate, but warned them that, once evacuated, the Vatican would be occupied in the name of the Italian government and be lost to the Church as headquarters of the papacy.

It was destroyed by Hannibal in 216 B.C., but restored in 210; in 90 B.C. it served as the Roman headquarters in the Social war, and was successfully held against the insurgents.

Cesare made Cesena his headquarters, and with an army consisting of 300 French lances, 4000 Gascons and Swiss, besides Italian troops, he attacked Imola, which surrendered at once, and then besieged Forll, held by Caterina Sforza, the widow of Girolamo Riario.

In that year Isaac Luria was living in Cairo and trading as a spice merchant with his headquarters in Alexandria.

This Palestinian town was in the 16th century the headquarters of the Kabbala.

When war with England broke out, in 1812, he was ordered to cruise in the lakes between Canada and the United States, with his headquarters on lake Champlain.

Amongst Rubiaceae, Cinchoneae with some outliers in the Old World have their headquarters at cooler levels.

On the other hand, it is the headquarters of Mutisiaceae, represented in South Africa by such genera as Oldenburgia and Gerbera and by Triehocline in Australia.

But it shared the fate of its predecessor; when the empire was founded the Sassanids could no longer remain in Persis but transferred their headquarters to Ctesiphon.

He reached Asiatic the headquarters of Batu, on the Volga, in February journeys.

Athens, the headquarters of the Mithradatic cause, was taken and sacked in 86; and in the same year, at Chaeroneia, the scene of Philip II.

During the World War he served with the headquarters staff of the British army in France (1916-7), attaining the rank of colonel, and later was Director of Information under the Prime Minister (1917-8), and his History of the War (Nelson) was an admirable piece of work.

His tenure of office was marked by an increased zeal for missions in Protestant lands, and by the removal of the society's headquarters from Rome to Fiesole near Florence in 1870.

The headquarters in Paris were removed from the modest rooms in the Rue Taranne, and established in large halls near the Boulevard Italien.

As the administrative headquarters of the district, Calicut maintains its historical importance.

During the Turco-Russian campaign of 1829 it was the headquarters of Mustafa Pasha of Skodra, and was occupied by the Russians for a few days.

Kronstadt is the naval headquarters in the Baltic, Sevastopol in the Black Sea and Vladivostok on the Pacific.

The Popovsti, who were served by priests converted from the Orthodox Church, made their headquarters in the island of Werka, in a tributary of the Dnieper, n Poland (1695), and after its destruction by the government in 1735 and again in 1764, at Starodubye in the government of Chernigov, whence their doctrine spread in the country of the Don.

In 1771 their headquarters were fixed at Moscow, in the Rogoshkiy cemetery assigned to them during the plague; here they had a monastery, seminary and consistory, until they were ejected by the emperor Nicholas I.

Since the days when Rurik had first chosen it as his headquarters, the little town on the Volkhov had grown into a great commercial of Nov- city and a member of the Hanseatic league, and it had brought under subjection a vast expanse of territory, stretching from the shores of the Baltic to the Ural Mountains, and containing several subordinate towns, of which the principal were Pskov, Nizhniy-Novgorod and Vyatka.