There were four of these Presidios in California, one at San Diego, the second at Santa Barbara, the third at Monterey, and the fourth here by the waters of the Golden Gate.
The chief object of the Presidios was to give protection to the Missionaries and guard them against the Indians.
Presidios were erected and fortified, in order to keep the country pacified.
He was to make it by means of soldiers from his presidiosand Indians from his province.
In order that those sorties might be made, presidios were dismantled, and others were weakened, so that even at the present time [i.
At present, since the declaration of independence, owing to the neglect of the governments which have succeeded each other in this unhappy country, most of the presidios and forts no longer exist.
And when those places were also full, it was necessary to divide the prisoners among the provinces, villages, and presidios of these islands.
Many who had been exiled to the presidios of Ternate, Zamboanga, and other forts in these islands, began to come back to their homes.
The galleon was in great danger, for some of the criminals who were being sent in it for the galleys and presidios of these islands tried to mutiny; but this was checked in time, and the guilty were punished.
Don Diego tried to ascertain the forces of the enemy with accuracy; he ordered the ports to be reconnoitered and the presidios to be fortified.
Thus the garrisons at Terrenate and the other presidios lack men, although the visitor thinks it all too much.
On the whole Rivera found the presidios in fair condition, but encountered many abuses.
These troubles, on the other hand, served to advance the military frontier by the founding of two presidios at Pitiqui (Hermosillo) and Terrenate in 1741.
In 1690 a revolt in the Tarahumara country destroyed settlements in all directions, and was put down only by the efforts of soldiers from all the presidios from El Gallo to Janos.
He left ten missions where there had been but seven, two hundred and sixty-eight soldiers instead of sixty or seventy, and four presidios instead of two, two of them being at strategic points.
The uprising was suppressed by Parrilla without great difficulty; most of the missions were reoccupied; and for greater security two new presidios were founded, at Altar, near Caborca, and at Tubac near San Xavier del Bac.
To defend the frontier, in 1685 three new presidios were established at Pasage, El Gallo, and Conchos, and two years later one was erected at Monclova.
At those presidios the soldiers die in great numbers from the unhealthful climate, insufficient and poor food, and their own inactivity and vicious lives.
I ordered them to build two presidios in the districts most suitable for aiding the people from, and for making them obedient to his Majesty.
One of the presidios is called Tarla, and the other Las Arenas.
This governor was a finished general, and placed the presidios of California on a solid basis; he was painstaking and careful of detail.
Also many Yankee, Russian and English trading ships came to California then, and the Spanish presidios were the scenes of many brilliant dances and entertainment's.
Some historians and casual observers are inclined to blame Spain for not having lent more aid to her loyal California colonies and enabled her presidios to have more and better fortifications.
Of the forts and presidios needed in this country 1.
All other classes whether whites, mestizos, or mixed castes, either in the Presidios or in the service of the Monks, were estimated at 1,300.
The chief of these are the ancient Presidences or Presidios of San Francisco, Monterey, Santa Barbara and San Diego.
Although the natives are hostile, those presidios are kept up with the hope of reducing them, and because of the nutmeg which is gotten there, which is but little.
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 Christianizing the natives.
These presidios were at San Diego, Monterey, San Francisco, and Santa Barbara.
There are twenty-four companies, or two more or less, in all the camp of Manila and in its presidios and those of Terrenate.
There shall be twenty musketeers in each one of the companies of this city and in the companies of the other presidios outside the city, but no more.
And, according to what it has been possible to ascertain with greater certainty, the said contributions from all the soldiers of this said camp, and in the forts and presidios of these islands, will amount to the following sum.
Ordinarily men were punished with one or two hundred lashes and from three to five years of galleys at the oar, though those of gentle blood were exempt from scourging and were sent to presidios or to military service in the galleys.
Spain maintains several presidios beyond sea, chiefly on the North African coast, and there is one also at Palma de Mallorca, one of the Balearic islands.
This same correspondent when he enquired his way to the presidio was told by a Spanish officer: "They are not presidios but the haunts of wild beasts and nurseries of thieves.
Home presidios are at Burgos, Cartagena, Granada, Ocana, Santona, Valladolid and Saragossa.
Life is held cheap in Ceuta and indeed in all Spanish presidios and gaols.
More than all this, the Moluccas were forsaken, never again to be recovered by Spaniards; and the presidios of Zamboanga and Cuyo, which served as a kind of bridle on the Moros of Jolo and Mindanao, were abandoned.
The Americans had meanwhile occupied Iloilo and the Bisayas, and shortly afterwards the presidios in Mindanao surrendered by the Spaniards.
The garrison of four presidios of Sonora concentrated within the walls of Tucson, gave us no pause.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "presidios" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
