These were called presidios, and divided the command of the whole country between them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

Portugal no longer retains any of her possessions in Morocco; but Spain still holds eight ports, known as the presidios, one on the Atlantic Coast and seven on the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

Spanish "presidios," should be refused altogether, as at best it is second-hand, more often fabricated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond] Reference

These families are divided amongst the pueblos and presidios.    From Wordnik.com.  [What I Saw in California] Reference

Menéndez de Avilés built presidios and posts across a wide area.    From Wordnik.com.  [d. The Gulf Coast, Florida, and the Carolinas] Reference

The inhabitants of the territory are divided amongst the presidios, missions, and towns.    From Wordnik.com.  [What I Saw in California] Reference

By 1760, Spain had established a total of twenty-three presidios in the frontier regions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indigenous Chihuahua: a story of war and assimilation] Reference

The garrisons of four presidios of Sonora concentrated within the walls of Tucson, gave us no pause.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert] Reference

The Spanish controlled all of the Algerian littoral through a series of coastal garrisons (presidios).    From Wordnik.com.  [b. Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya] Reference

I was introduced to a Spanish renegade, a great many make their escape from the presidios of the North.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Morocco] Reference

There are four ports, principal bays, in this territory, which take the names of the corresponding presidios.    From Wordnik.com.  [What I Saw in California] Reference

Minister Gálvez promoted occupation of Alta California with a system of military forts (presidios) and Franciscan-led missions.    From Wordnik.com.  [1562-70] Reference

Diario y Derrotero de lo camion ado, visto y observado en la visita que lo hizo a los presidios de la Nueva Espana septentrional.    From Wordnik.com.  [EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON] Reference

Apaches became such skilled horsemen that they effectively bypassed the presidios and continuously eluded the Spanish military forces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indigenous Chihuahua: a story of war and assimilation] Reference

Besides the missions, which were controlled by the Franciscans, were four presidios, at San Diego, Santa Barbara, Monterey, and San Francisco.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: The Age of Gold by H.W. Brands] Reference

In the early settlements there were no educated people but the priests at the missions and the Spanish officers with their families at the presidios.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of California] Reference

The necessity of protecting the apostolic predication was the obligatory reason for forming the presidios, which were established according to circumstances.    From Wordnik.com.  [What I Saw in California] Reference

Dutch forts and presidios in the Filipinas district.    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

Crops were 6300 bushels, and in 1797 the presidios of Santa.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Franciscan Missions Of California] Reference

In all those forts and presidios Jorje Spilberg found, in the year.    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

For the presidios among the Çambales -- namely, the presidio de San.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 09 of 55 1593-1597 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

The infantry adjutants of the presidios in the provinces of Çibu, Oton.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 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, Volume XXVI, 1636] Reference

Such are outside vicariates, and the chaplaincies of presidios, fortresses, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 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

It is built in the form of an open square, like all the other presidios, and was in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

That trade furnished the profits with which to maintain wars, squadrons, and great presidios in the.    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

Thus the garrisons at Terrenate and the other presidios lack men, although the visitor thinks it all too much.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55 1630-34 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

Spanish king resolved to found missions among the natives and to erect forts or presidios for their protection.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference

Settlers who had been living in the pueblos and presidios flooded the governor's office with petitions for land.    From Wordnik.com.  [San Bernardino County Sun Most Viewed] Reference

Those who were boys might be kept in presidios, and in places where there is not so great need of experienced soldiers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 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

Garcés gave much thought, drawing up a plan for holding them in subjection by the establishment of a cordon of presidios.    From Wordnik.com.  [The North American Indian] Reference

By revolution, the presidios became shorn of their strength, and no longer offered a barrier even to the weakest incursion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse] Reference

There are twenty-four companies, or two more or less, in all the camp of Manila and in its presidios and those of Terrenate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 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, Volume XXVI, 1636] Reference

They went on all the expeditions and pacifications that arose, and guarded the forts and presidios, and cities and settlements.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Philippine Islands] Reference

In order to equip them with men, the governor withdrew as many men as possible from the presidios of Oton, Cibu, and Nueva Segovia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 20 of 55 1621-1624 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

By those means they were able to discontinue several presidios, and save the great expense that these occasioned to the royal revenues.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 22 of 55 1625-29 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

The third, the great profits of that commerce; since for its maintenance alone the enemy employ and support so many fleets and presidios.    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

In the establishment of the Missions, the presidios were founded to be a means of protection to the padres in their work of civilizing and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Franciscan Missions Of California] Reference