presidio

(On camera): Miss Bowles lives here in one of San Francisco's most prestigious neighborhoods called presidio heights.

CNN Transcript Aug 1, 2007 2007

Near each of the earlier coast missions there was also founded a military station called a presidio, a name borrowed from the Roman presidium.

History of California Helen Elliott Bandini

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.

The Romance of the Colorado River Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh 1894

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.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 25 of 55 1635-36 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century Emma Helen Blair 1884

The Viceroy of Mexico now remembered the discovery of an excellent port by Viscaino, and resolved to found a "presidio" there.

Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century Jules Verne 1866

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.

Nicolás Meyer: California In Argentine Hands: A Brief History Lesson Nicolás Meyer 2011

Then the Argentines scaled the walls of the presidio from the rear, and the fight within was quickly over.

Nicolás Meyer: California In Argentine Hands: A Brief History Lesson Nicolás Meyer 2011

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.

Nicolás Meyer: California In Argentine Hands: A Brief History Lesson Nicolás Meyer 2011

With more than three hundred people at the presidio, mostly women and children families of the soldiers, he dared not send more.

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

More often the soldiers would ride out of the presidio, kill the first Indians they found, and return home.

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010