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The Royal Spanish Presidio San Agustín del Tucson was established as a new outpost in 1776 with a garrison of seventy Spanish cavalry troopers and Indian scouts transferred from Tubac under the command of Lt. Col. Juan Bautista de Anza. Its first fort was a crude wooden palisade, later replaced by adobe walls begun about 1778 and completed in 1783. For 80 years, presidial soldiers protected San Xavier mission and settlers who farmed the Santa Cruz valley.
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Tucson, Arizona · United States
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N. W. Corner Adobe Wall of Spanish Presidio of Tucson
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Presidio San Agustín del Tucson
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Padre-Eusebio-Francisco-Kino, S.J.
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Commemorating the Raising of the First American Flag within the Walled City of Tucson
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Southwest Corner of the Presidio
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Exchange at the Presidio
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