Barracks facts for kids

A barrack is a military building where soldiers live and sleep. Barracks can be made stronger with sandbags or with barbed wire fences. Sometimes they are built underground. They have been used for many years by many countries in many wars.

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  Late 18th century barracks from the reign of George III, Edinburgh Castle, Scotland

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  Barracks in Gdańsk, Poland.

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  Barracks of the 117th infantry regiment in Le Mans, France (c.1900).

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  The Russian-period barracks in Vaasa, Ostrobothnia, Finland

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  Barracks housing conscripts of Norrbotten Regiment in Boden, Sweden.

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  German barracks for troops of Bundespolizei (federal police) in Frankfurt, Germany.

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  The officers' barracks and mess establishment at Fort York, Toronto, built in 1815 after the original 1793 fort was destroyed by American soldiers during the War of 1812.

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  Officers' barracks at New Fort York made of Queenston limestone (1840), the site's only surviving structure.

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  Barracks at Hampton Court Palace (1689), Greater London; these are Britain's oldest surviving purpose-built barracks.

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  Fort George barracks, 1753

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  Cavalry barracks, Christchurch, Dorset, 1795: officers' accommodation in the end blocks, ground-floor stables with men's accommodation over.

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  Officers' accommodation at Cambridge Infantry Barracks in Portsmouth (1820s)

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  Kempston Barracks, built to serve as depot for the Bedfordshire Regiment in 1875 (one of a number of similar barracks established following the Cardwell reforms)

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  Chelsea Barracks, as rebuilt in the 1960s

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  Many barracks contain large numbers of beds or bunk beds with minimal common areas

See also

In Spanish: Cuartel (milicia) para niños