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There’s also a legend that Geronimo himself came up with the battle cry, yelling his own name as he leapt down a nearly vertical cliff on horseback to escape American troops at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
Harlyn Geronimo, known to be Geronimo's great-grandson, said to the Senate Commission on Indian Affairs: [92] [The use of "Geronimo" in the raid that killed Bin Laden] either was an outrageous insult [or] mistake and it is clear from the military records released that the name Geronimo was used at times by military personnel involved for both ...
"I like Geronimo just as he was, a human predator", said Milius. [10] "Geronimo was a man who saw the history of his people wiped out", added Milius. "I love the Apaches and Geronimo was the ultimate Apache. But Geronimo was more than an Apache he was the essence of a misfit rebel and he would never give up. He was a troublemaker and I ...
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Geronimo Campaign, between May 1885 and September 1886, was the last large-scale military operation of the Apache wars.It took more than 5,000 U.S. Army Cavalry soldiers, led by the two experienced Army generals, in order to subdue no more than 70 (only 38 by the end of the campaign in northern Mexico) Chiricahua Apache who fled the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation and raided parts of the ...
The exclamation Geronimo!, shouted when jumping from a great height, may have entered the English language through the 1939 film.During World War II, the film was shown to a group of paratroopers at Fort Benning, Georgia, who afterwards began to shout Geronimo! at the moment of jumping from the airplane.