Presidio de Monterey

The Presidio de Monterey , located at Monterey, in California, with the the United States of America; of the Army American is an installation which shelters also the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLI-FLC). But it was at the beginning a strong soldier built by the Spanish in 1770 in the aim of protection the third military district. The only building remaining of this time is the vault.

History

Presidio Reál de San Carlos de Monterey

In 1768, the visitador (general inspector) of News-Spain, Jose de Gálvez receives the following orders: " Occupied and to strengthen San Diego and Monterey for God and the King of Spain . " Two years afterwards, a small forwarding, led by the captain Gaspar de Portolà and the Father Junípero Serra, takes officially possession for Spain, of what today is central California, by the establishment of El Presidio Reál de San Carlos de Monterey and of the Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo. The acts of Portolà are dictated by fears of Spain that other nations — in particular the Russia — drawings as for its empire of the Nouveau World do not have. Spain mobilizes itself in order to occupy this portion of the west coast of America which she had previously neglected. The port of Monterey, which had been discovered and charted one century earlier by the Spanish explorer, Sebastián Vizcaíno, was ready for the colonization and the construction of military fortifications.

Monterey becomes one of the presidios , or " extremely royal, " built by Spain on what is the west of the United States today. The other fortification Spanish built in California are it with San Diego (El Presidio Real de San Diego) built in 1769, San Francisco (El Presidio Real of San Francisco) in 1776, Santa Barbara (El Presidio Real de Santa Bárbara) in 1782. The November 20th 1818 the Corsair Hippolyte de Bouchard, known later under the name of " California' S only pirate" plunder the fort. Presidio de Monterey knows tops and bottoms during time: it is moved, given up and reactivated on several occasions. The only current vestige of the initial installation is the Royal Presidio Chapel. With three recoveries at least, it was taken in the swirl of the history, but it always reappeared in a new form, a new Master and a new mission — initially Spaniards, then Mexican and finally Americans.

Strong Mervine

The Americans take the control of the area in 1846 at the time of the américano-Mexican Guerre when the Commodore John D. Sloat, of U.S. Navy, unloads in Monterey and takes possession of the territory and its Presidio in the name of the United States. It leaves there a small garrison of Marines which moves and arranges defenses of the fort in order to better protect the city and its port. Presidio is famous Fort Mervine in the honor of the Captain William Mervine, who ordered one of the ships of the squadron of Sloat.

Original Presidio consisted of a square of constructions in adobe located in envitons what is the center of Monterey today. The mission of the fort, the Royal Presidio Chapel, always remained in activity since its foundation in 1770 by Junípero Serra. On a hill overhanging the port of Monterey, a rampart is which is the only bond between the original site and the current site. This rampart was the site of a gun which defended the port.

The end of the américano-Mexican War and the gold discovery in California put a term at the military presence with Monterey. In may 1848, the news of discovered of gold arrives in Monterey and a deserted good part of the military personnel to answer the call of the gold-fields. In 1865, in the last months of the American Civil War, the strong old man includes life with the arrival of 6 officers and 156 men, but it is again abandoned in 1866.

In 1902, a regiment of infantry arrives at Monterey with for mission of building a barracks there making it possible to accommodate a squadron of cavalry. The troops move in new timber constructions, officially named Ord Barracks , in June 1903, thus named in the honor of the General Edward Ord who was useful at the time of the American Civil War. However, at end to perpetuate the name of the old Spanish military base established by Portolà 134 years with paravant, the Département of the War renames off the barracks Presidio Monterey .

Presidio off Monterey

A school of fusillers is installed in Presidio of 1904 with 1911, then a school of cooks of 1914 with 1917. In 1917, the Army acquires a property of 64 km ² in bay like ground of exercise. This new acquisition receives the name of Camp Ord in 1939 then becomes Fort Ord in 1940, thus named in homage to the general Edward Ord who was useful at the time of the American Civil War.

Between 1919 and 1940, Presidio accommodates mainly unit of cavalry and artillery. However the bursting of the Second world war mark the end of the cavalry with horse and its troops leave Monterey.

Since 1946, Presidio itself becomes an appendix of Fort Ord. Then on October 1st 1994, the situation changes when Fort Ord firm, the Presidio off Monterey becomes again an autonomous installation, whose installations of Fort Ord will be named Presidio Annex .

Defense Language Institute

In 1946, the Military Intelligence Service Language School (MISLS) (school of languages of rensignement military) moves in with the Presidio off Monterey and is renamed Army Language School (ALS) (school of languages of the Army). In June 1963, the Army Language School is famous Defense Language Institute (DLI) (institute of languages of Defense).

In 1976, the Defense Language Institute , becomes the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLI-FLC) (Center of the foreign languages of the institute of languages of Defense), the principal training center for the foreign languages of the Department of Defense. The center constitutes today the main thing activity of Presidio.

See too

Presidio

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