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Presidio   /prɪsˈɪdiˌoʊ/   Listen
Presidio

noun
1.
A fortress established in the southwestern United States by the Spanish in order to protect their missions and other holdings.





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"Presidio" Quotes from Famous Books



... from the Philippine Islands to the Mexican border, General Pershing was called upon to fight the hardest battle of his entire life. Leaving his wife and four children at the Presidio Hotel in San Francisco, he went to El Paso, Texas, to rent a house. While in El Paso he was shocked to get a telegram stating that the Presidio had burned and that his wife and three daughters had perished in the flames. Surely this ...
— Modern Americans - A Biographical School Reader for the Upper Grades • Chester Sanford


Words linked to "Presidio" :   fort, fortress


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