Tucson was first settled as a walled presidio.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

(On camera): Miss Bowles lives here in one of San Francisco's most prestigious neighborhoods called presidio heights.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 1, 2007] Reference

The Viceroy of Mexico now remembered the discovery of an excellent port by Viscaino, and resolved to found a "presidio" there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century] Reference

The plat includes the irrigated area below the presidio.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert] Reference

Mission, and also a presidio with a few cannon in charge of General.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of California] Reference

Shortcut what would be the best bet. laredo or presidio to Mazatlan?.    From Wordnik.com.  [what would be the best bet. laredo or presidio to Mazatlan?] Reference

Wounded men were dragged into the streets of the presidio to be shot.    From Wordnik.com.  [EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON] Reference

At both San Diego and Monterey a presidio, or fort, was built for the soldiers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of California] Reference

Tubac as a presidio dates from 1752, Tumacacori from 1754 and Tucson from 1776.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert] Reference

Eventually the mission was moved six miles inland to separate mission and presidio.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference

At one time 150 neophytes actually were armed and drilled to reinforce the Spanish presidio guard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference

Across the river, several miles away, one hundred soldiers were garrisoned in a stockade-fence presidio.    From Wordnik.com.  [EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON] Reference

MexConnect. com Forums: General: Traveling Mexico: what would be the best bet. laredo or presidio to Mazatlan?.    From Wordnik.com.  [what would be the best bet. laredo or presidio to Mazatlan?] Reference

De Neve planned to accompany the settlers, for he was interested in Santa Barbara, which also was to have a presidio.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference

The presidio is about three miles from the town, and consists of several blocks of adobe buildings, covered with files.    From Wordnik.com.  [What I Saw in California] Reference

Arguello, commander of the presidio of San Francisco, received the following orders from the governor of the province.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of California] Reference

Arguello of the presidio of San Francisco, but in vain did he try to trade off his cargo for food for his starving people.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of California] Reference

With more than three hundred people at the presidio, mostly women and children families of the soldiers, he dared not send more.    From Wordnik.com.  [EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON] Reference

They marched three hundred and fifty of us out on the road, and left Colonel Fannin and about seventy other wounded in the presidio.    From Wordnik.com.  [TWO FOR TEXAS] Reference

The presidio here was entirely open and unfortified.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

This was the site of the future presidio and mission of Santa Barbara.    From Wordnik.com.  [The March of Portola and the Discovery of the Bay of San Francisco] Reference

A pile of copy-books, the work of the presidio school, lay on the table.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers] Reference

The most northerly presidio is San Francisco, the next Monterey, the next Santa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

The troops were composed of forty cavalrymen from the presidio of Loreto in Lower.    From Wordnik.com.  [The March of Portola and the Discovery of the Bay of San Francisco] Reference

Abundant harvests and patient industry amply supplied the wants of presidio and mission.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers] Reference

Don Fernando de Rivera y Moncado, captain of the presidio of Loreto, was appointed second in command.    From Wordnik.com.  [The March of Portola and the Discovery of the Bay of San Francisco] Reference

A few hours later, when silence had fallen upon the presidio, he sought his own couch and slept peacefully.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers] Reference

In the island of Hermosa, between the Filipinas and China, they have established a presidio and seized a port.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 27 of 55 1636-37 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] Reference

San Carlos de Borromeo de Monterey were founded and established, the first presidio and second mission in California.    From Wordnik.com.  [The March of Portola and the Discovery of the Bay of San Francisco] Reference

San Antonio, Don Miguel del Pino, his second in command, together with the crew, assembled to establish a presidio and mission.    From Wordnik.com.  [The March of Portola and the Discovery of the Bay of San Francisco] Reference

The presidio San Agustín del Tucson location is the interpretive center on the site of Tucson's original adobe-walled presidio.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tucson Citizen] Reference

The authorities had decided to establish there two nondescript settlements, a sort of cross between mission, pueblo, and presidio.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of the Colorado River] Reference

From Bac, under the protection of the presidio of Tubac, some thirty miles farther south, later transferred (1776) to the present Tucson.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of the Colorado River] Reference