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A presidio, in the case of the California missions, were homes for the soldiers. That was why so many presidios were near the missions. To guard the padres living in the missions, the soldiers could simply go over and defend the priests.
a fort or military establishment
A garrison, especially a fortress of the kind established in the southwest United States by the Spanish to protect their holdings and missions

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