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• n  fortification consisting of a fence made of a line of stout posts set firmly for defense
• n  a penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined (usually under harsh conditions)
• v  surround with a stockade in order to fortify

• He sailed home through the Strait in 1292 after 17 years in Kublai Khan's court, and spent five months in a fortified stockade on the Indonesian landmass of Sumatra, waiting for .
• At dawn one day last week, a bus pulled out of the stockade at Elath, Israel's southernmost outpost and single Red Sea port.
• The routine roll call at the Presidio stockade in San Francisco was disrupted last October.

• concentration camp

News & Articles

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• The Stockade Group announces an informational Webinar on “Why Big Data Management is Not Just for Big Institutions or ...
  The Stockade Group is presenting its next Educational Series Webinar and will join with the th? Call Center Corporation to present this information session sponsored by Coginov for anyone involved or interested in Big Data Management at their institutions of higher education. (PRWeb June 17, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10839799.htm
  June 17, 2013 - PRWeb
• Fort Loudon Sidelights: Colonial Day set for historic site
  The annual Colonial Day will be held June 22 at the State Historic Site of Fort Loudoun. The event will be from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. This year is the 20th anniversary of reconstructing the fort stockade on its original location.
  June 15, 2013 - Chambersburg Public Opinion
• Concerns as water level rises along Mohawk River
  Schenectady Police are warning residents in the Stockade section of the city that the Mohawk River is expected to crest around 8am Friday, reaching upwards of 224 feet.
  June 14, 2013 - WNYT Albany

Quotes

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• Robert McClelland in The New Lawyer
  Pressed as to whether yesterday's events were "a little Eureka Stockade-ish", McClelland said: "It's the Government I suppose being in the stockade and the miners have been out there circling, so good analogy but I think almost in reverse."
• Linda Greenhouse in Jamaica Observer
  As Ms Greenhouse wrote, powerful supporters intervened as soon as he was sentenced in 1971: "Three days after the conviction President Nixon ordered him released form the stockade at Fort Benning, Ga, and placed under house arrest in a comfortable...