presidios
Colonial military outposts
Presidios are fortified military settlements, particularly those established by Spanish colonizers in the Americas from the 16th through 19th centuries.
They served as frontier outposts protecting missions and colonial territories: The presidio at San Francisco guarded the entrance to the bay.
Several modern cities grew from these original fortifications.
Strengthening defenses or nutrients
- garrisonStationed military force
- stockadeFence of sharpened stakes
- palisadeFence of pointed stakes
- rampartFortified defensive wall
blockhouse · watchtower · parapet · bastion · citadel · stronghold · redoubt · bulwark
Stationed military force
- troopsMilitary personnel collectively
- soldiersMilitary personnel who fight
- commanderPerson with authority over others
- barracksSoldiers' residential building
infantry · cavalry · regiment · officer · lieutenant · captain · sergeant · defense
Remote military station
- frontierEdge of settlement
- settlementResolved dispute or colony
- missionPurpose-driven task
- territoryLand under jurisdiction
conquistadors · exploration · colony · expedition · colonists · governor · pioneers · establishment
Notable point of reference
- monumentStructure honoring someone remembered
- conservationPreventing waste or loss
- restorationReturning something to condition
- archaeologyStudy of physical remnants
excavation · museum · artifact · relic · preservation · interpretation · tourism · Monterey
fortification
Strengthening defenses or nutrients
rampart · blockhouse · watchtower · parapet · bastion · citadel · stronghold · redoubt · bulwark · battlement
garrison
Stationed military force
- troopsMilitary personnel collectively
- soldiersMilitary personnel who fight
- commanderPerson with authority over others
barracks · infantry · cavalry · regiment · officer · lieutenant · captain · sergeant · defense · patrol
outpost
Remote military station
- frontierEdge of settlement
- settlementResolved dispute or colony
- missionPurpose-driven task
territory · conquistadors · exploration · colony · expedition · colonists · governor · pioneers · establishment · charter
landmark
Notable point of reference
- monumentStructure honoring someone remembered
- conservationPreventing waste or loss
- restorationReturning something to condition
archaeology · excavation · museum · artifact · relic · preservation · interpretation · tourism · Monterey
- historic sitesruins, historic site, basilica, monument, fortress
- military historybattles, soldiers, campaigns, officers, battlefields
- Florida HistorySt. Augustine, Ponce de Leon, Everglades, Spanish exploration, Seminole
- Spanish coloniesSpanish conquest, Spanish crown, viceroys, viceroyalties, Spanish colony
- Spanish Trailroyal road, Santa Fe, El Paso, Chihuahua, Mexico City
- Central Coast historySpanish missions, El Camino Real, ranchos, vaqueros, secularization