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Geronimo's chief, Mangas Coloradas (Spanish for "red sleeves"), sent him to Cochise's band for help in his revenge against the Mexicans. [25] It was during this incident that the name Geronimo came about. This appellation stemmed from a battle in which, ignoring a deadly hail of bullets, he repeatedly attacked Mexican soldiers with a knife.
Victorio: Apache warrior and chief. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-8061-3843-5. Debo, Angie (1989). "I have surrendered for the fourth time". Geronimo: The Man, His Time, His Place. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-8061-1828-4. DeMontravel, Peter R. (1998). A hero to his fighting men: Nelson A. Miles, 1839–1925. Kent State ...
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 movie they most likely saw was Geronimo, a western film about the Apache Indian chief of the same name. RELATED: The best airports to find "the one":
Mangas Coloradas or Mangus-Colorado (La-choy Ko-kun-noste, alias "Red Sleeves"), or Dasoda-hae (c. 1793 – January 18, 1863) was an Apache tribal chief and a member of the Mimbreño (Tchihende) division of the Central Apaches, whose homeland stretched west from the Rio Grande to include most of what is present-day southwestern New Mexico.
Geronimo (full title: Geronimo: The Story of a Great Enemy) is a 1939 American Western film starring Chief Thundercloud as Geronimo, the famous leader of Apache warriors who fought against American colonizers. It was directed by Paul Sloane. This is the first film depiction of Geronimo's life.
First Lieutenant Britton Davis (June 4, 1860 – January 23, 1930) was an American soldier born in Brownsville, Texas.He served in the United States Army in the 6th Cavalry after graduating from West Point in 1881.
He and Geronimo remained close friends until Geronimo's death in 1909. He filed for an Indian Wars pension under the name William Alchesay and resigned from active chieftainship in 1925. [ 1 ] Alchesay died August 6, 1928, at North Fork, Arizona and is buried on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation in Whiteriver, Arizona .