sentences:  In order to encourage men to serve, land grants of were provided for soldiers who completed five years.Nevertheless, the colony's military force grew only marginally; by 1876 there were 415 men under arms in the colony's service.These were distributed across two batteries of artillery in Brisbane and Ipswich, some Brisbane-based engineers and six companies of infantry in Brisbane, Ipswich, Warwick, Rockhampton and Toowoomba.