A casern, also spelled cazern or caserne, is a military barracks in a garrison town.[1] In French-speaking countries, a caserne de pompier is a fire station.

Caserne St-Henri, Montreal

In fortification, caserns are little rooms, lodgments, or apartments, erected between the ramparts, and the houses of fortified towns, or even on the ramparts themselves; to serve as lodgings for the soldiers of the garrison, to ease the garrison, in Portugal and Brazil "Quartel" (derived for 4 faces).

There are usually two beds in each casern, for six soldiers to lie, who mount the guard alternately; the third part being always on duty.

Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChambers, Ephraim, ed. (1728). "Caserns". Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1st ed.). James and John Knapton, et al. p. 166.

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  1. ^ Les gens de guerre à Saint-Julien-du-Sault, J Crédé, Imprimerie Fostier, 1976 (in French)