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Presidio

noun

A fortress established in the southwestern United States by the Spanish in order to protect their missions and other holdings.

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"Presidio" Quotes from Famous Books

... for the city has no citizens with capital who care to engage in the building of any vessel. The city has a garrison of one company of seven hundred soldiers, more or less at times, and other extravagances. It has an alcalde-mayor, who acts as governor. He is also captain of the company of the presidio, and usually is supreme chief of all the Pintados. The latter are so called because all the male Pintados tattooed their entire bodies with so excellent and well-designed symmetry, that the best artist in ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XXIII, 1629-30 • Various

... the commodore located his fort, Fort Stockton, to hold the town. He anchored in the bay and sent his men ashore to do it. On the rear edge of town, on the first little rise below Fort Stockton, was the Spanish presidio, or fort—but Fort Stockton had the bulge on it. About thirty miles northeast (can't see it from here, of course) among the hills is where General Kearny and his First Dragoons were corralled by the Californians after they had marched overland from ...

— Gold Seekers of '49 • Edwin L. Sabin

Words linked to "Presidio" : fortress, fort