presidio
IPA: prɪsˈɪdioʊ
noun
- A garrisoned place, especially one that is or was once under Spanish control.
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Examples of "presidio" in Sentences
- Then the Argentines scaled the walls of the presidio from the rear, and the fight within was quickly over.
- More often the soldiers would ride out of the presidio, kill the first Indians they found, and return home.
- (On camera): Miss Bowles lives here in one of San Francisco's most prestigious neighborhoods called presidio heights.
- The Viceroy of Mexico now remembered the discovery of an excellent port by Viscaino, and resolved to found a "presidio" there.
- With more than three hundred people at the presidio, mostly women and children families of the soldiers, he dared not send more.
- Near each of the earlier coast missions there was also founded a military station called a presidio, a name borrowed from the Roman presidium.
- The method of the authorities was to establish a military post, called a presidio, at some convenient point, from which protection would be extended to several missions.
- When the two-ship Argentine fleet approached Monterey, the local government cautiously retreated inland, leaving the defense to the soldiers in the presidio, or fort, and to pro-Spain militiamen.
- And not before the anti-Spanish raiders, beginning their return to South America, burned down the Monterey presidio, plus the property of the royalist garrison though not that of the local population.
- And although your Lordship will doubtless proceed, I must warn you through my experience of European affairs, heedfully, that the reasons that operate in this small presidio, which is surrounded by barbarians and hostile nations, have no place in populous cities.
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