USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -A presidio protected a mission. Presidios were forts that offered safety from unfriendly American Indians. They also helped control the American Indians in the missions. Soldiers from the presidio caught American Indians who ran away from the mission.

Detailed explanation-2: -The government of New Spain settled the northern borderlands of Mexico and present-day Texas with missions, frontier communities, and presidios. Presidios were colonial frontier military settlements intended to secure and defend Spain’s claim to territories occupied by indigenous populations.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Presidio has a rich history spanning back to the time of the native Ohlone people. The Spanish arrived in 1776 to establish the northernmost outpost of their empire in western North America. The Presidio fell under Mexican rule for 24 years before the U.S. Army took control in 1846.