Who is Geronimo (4 photos) Bashny.Net

"Geronimo!" - With the cry of jumping from an airplane American paratroopers. Owes its origin to the tradition of the leader of the Apaches Geronimo (1829-1909), whose name suggests the white settlers such fear that cost someone shout "Geronimo!" All jumped in the window.



Goyatlay (Geronimo) was born in the settlement of the Apaches Bedonkohe, located in the vicinity of the river Gila, in what is now Arizona, at the time - in the possession of Mexico, but the family has always believed this Jeronimo his land. Jeronimo's parents taught him in accordance with the traditions of the Apaches. He married a woman from the tribe of Apaches Chirikauhua and had three children. March 5, 1851 a detachment of 400 soldiers from the Mexican state of Sonora led by Colonel Jose Maria Carrasco attacked the camp near Geronimo milkfish at the time, as most of the men of the tribe went to the city to sell. Among the dead were the wife, children and mother Geronimo. Tribal chief, Mangas Coloradas, decided to take revenge on the Mexicans and sent to the Cochise Goyatlaya for help. Although, in the words of Geronimo, he was never the leader of the tribe, from that moment on he became its military leader. For the tribe Chirikauhua it also meant that he was also a spiritual leader. In accordance with the position it was Geronimo led many raids against the Mexicans, and later against the US Army.

Wife and child Geronimo

Always giving the enemy in battle with the number of Mexican and American troops, Geronimo became famous for his courage and elusiveness that he showed from 1858 to 1886. At the end of his military career, he led a tiny band of 38 men, women and children. A year to hunt for him 5000 soldiers of the US Army (a quarter of the US Army at the time) and several units of the Mexican Army. People Geronimo was one of the last independent Indian warriors who refused to recognize the authority of the United States Government in the American West. End of resistance came September 4, 1886, when Geronimo was forced to surrender to General Nelson Miles American in Arizona.



Geronimo (right) and his warriors

Geronimo and other warriors were sent to Fort Pickens, Florida, and his family at Fort Marion. They reunited in May 1887, when all along have been transported to Mount Vernon Barracks in Alabama for five years. In 1894, Geronimo was moved to Fort Sill in Oklahoma.



In old age he became a celebrity. He has appeared in exhibitions, including the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, where he sold souvenirs and personal photos. However, the return to the land of their ancestors was not allowed. Geronimo took part in the parade on the occasion of the inauguration of US President Theodore Roosevelt in 1905. He died of pneumonia at Fort Sill in 1909 and was buried in the local cemetery captive Indians Apaches.