ungarrisoned

How soon the barbarians beyond the border would realize that and how long the city would stay ungarrisoned ...

Bridge of the Separator Turtledove, Harry 2005

Again Kith-Kanan thought of the ungarrisoned fortress rising from the plains a hundred miles to the east.

The Kinslayer Wars Niles, Douglas 1991

Even on his wedding night, Alexander was not so besotted as to leave the place ungarrisoned; but had sent them plenty of good cheer to keep the feast.

The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

Their forts are ungarrisoned; their colonies replenished with the aged and infirm; and between the people and their magistrates, whilst the former are averse to obedience, and the latter rule with injustice, the municipal cities are weakened and full of dissensions.

The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola Caius Cornelius Tacitus

But with tiny forces of half a battalion in front and no support behind -- nothing but long lines of railway with ungarrisoned ports hundreds of miles at the far end of them -- it is very dangerous.

From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War G. W. Steevens

Nor is there anything formidable behind them: ungarrisoned forts; colonies of old men; municipal towns distempered and distracted between unjust masters and ill - obeying subjects.

The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus Caius Cornelius Tacitus

The net result of the morning's work was the knowledge that Hamilton was leaving Heilbron at that very moment, and leaving it ungarrisoned.

With Steyn and De Wet Philip Pienaar

The Boers had left it ungarrisoned, thinking it useless either to themselves or to the enemy.

Sir John French Chisholm, Cecil 1915

Lastly, there was the world-renowned Fort Sumter, which then stood, unfinished and ungarrisoned, on a little islet beside the main ship channel, at the entrance to the harbor, and facing Fort Moultrie just a mile away.

Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray William Charles Henry Wood 1905

While ungarrisoned towns were being reduced, the English Regent had been gathering an army.

The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 Anatole France 1884