"castramentation" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1914, Elizabeth Oke Gordon, Prehistoric London: Its Mounds and Circles, page 117:",
          "text": "[The methods of] castramentation are said to have been introduced into Britain by Brutus. Caesar describes both as having attained, in his time, the highest perfection. The British castramentation was, in some important respects, superior to the[…]",
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          "text": "The duties of engineers include the services of reconnaissance, castramentation, fortification, sieges, demolitions, general construction, roads and railroads, and such other special services of an engineering nature as may arise. […] The service of castramentation has to do with the selection of ground for camps, and the laying out and preparation of camps for occupancy.",
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          "text": "... castramentation includes the selection , laying out , and preparation of camps and cantonments , the reconnais- sance and the municipal and sanitary engineering incident thereto , and may include the installation , operation and[…]",
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          "ref": "1998, Assemblage, page 66:",
          "text": "This is true of the art of encampments, \"castramentation,\" which has always mobilized projections and inclined planes. […",
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          "ref": "2004, Joyce E. Salisbury, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life: 19th century, Greenwood:",
          "text": "The science of encamping an army is called castramentation , derived from castra (the Latin word for camp). The armies of ancient Rome were highly regarded for the regularity of their legionary camps, which served as a model of proper Civil War castramentation. A castramentation officer was usually appointed […]",
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