presidio

They’d soon start building their presidio fort a few miles away, the twin foundations of Spain’s God and empire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

Led by a military commander and the Franciscan missionary Fray Junipero Serra, a combined expedition of soldiers and friars reached San Diego in 1769 and built the first mission and fort, or presidio.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

The presidio had yielded to the glass office towers of downtown.

From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2012

Walthew thanked the man and set off for the presidio.

From The Coast of Adventure by Bindloss, Harold

In the same year a colony of Canary Islanders was established beside the presidio and missions, and formed into the Villa of San Fernando.

From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene

The database has informed dozens of articles and books on early California and has allowed thousands of people to trace their own ancestry back to 18th century California pueblos, presidios and Native villages.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2025

Missions, presidios, and pueblos were small polygons of order in the great unruly geometry of Alta California, with wide stretches between them largely ungoverned by the Spanish.

From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2015

On the whole Rivera found the presidios in fair condition, but encountered many abuses.

From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene

To Hugo O'Conor, as comandante inspector, fell the task of arranging the line of presidios.

From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene

Consequently, at the end of 1662 or at the beginning of 63 the presidios were actually withdrawn, and the Christian villages were left more exposed than ever to the invasions of the Moros.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700 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. by Blair, Emma Helen