At the outbreak of May 11, it had been plundered and burnt by the mutinous sepoys and badmashes, who also in like manner had destroyed every house belonging to the Europeans in the suburbs of Delhi and the adjoining cantonment.

In the United States the training of the new National Army, national guards, and officers in the numerous cantonments and training camps was intensified and hurried.

He came from Iowa, but somehow he got sent to one of the southern cantonments, and had his officer's training, such as it was, down there.