Geronimo was a prominent leader of the Chiricahua Apache Tribe and the leader of the Apache Wars. He is famous for taking his men with him and going rogue as well as being a known “celebrity” after the wars. Throughout his life he battled for the right to Indian Land. Geronimo fought against the Reservation System and continued to fight and flee until the Closing of the Frontier, when this came into effect Geronimo surrendered. Geronimo explains that the white men came into their existence during 1858 and in 1880 the battling for indian rights and land began after the treachery and massacre of Casa Grande in 1880, the battling increased during 1884 after Mexican troops gathered around their camp in the mountains of Arizona, where Geronimo and his men planned to gather more Apache Indians for the fight.
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They fled north of Arispe. After fleeing from Arispe, they headed towards Mexico stopping in Arizona where they came into trouble with Mexican troops and the United States soldiers, with this in mind they continued to flee southward. Geronimo gives account of an incident where he hid in a ditch from the Mexican officers, “...the red devil Geronimo and his hated band. This must be his last day.” after the command was given to the troops, Geronimo attacked the general. He describes the battle seen as “...all along the ditches arose the fierce war-cry of my people.” The Mexican troops retreated while Geronimo and his men prepared for another attack, the night following the fight many indians set fire to the prairie grass behind mexican troops during this confusion, Geronimo and his men retreated to the mountains. This is said to be the last battle ever fought between Geronimo and the Mexicans. Geronimo until his final days remarked the Mexicans as “treacherous and malicious...if I were young and followed the warpath, it would lead into Old
They fled north of Arispe. After fleeing from Arispe, they headed towards Mexico stopping in Arizona where they came into trouble with Mexican troops and the United States soldiers, with this in mind they continued to flee southward. Geronimo gives account of an incident where he hid in a ditch from the Mexican officers, “...the red devil Geronimo and his hated band. This must be his last day.” after the command was given to the troops, Geronimo attacked the general. He describes the battle seen as “...all along the ditches arose the fierce war-cry of my people.” The Mexican troops retreated while Geronimo and his men prepared for another attack, the night following the fight many indians set fire to the prairie grass behind mexican troops during this confusion, Geronimo and his men retreated to the mountains. This is said to be the last battle ever fought between Geronimo and the Mexicans. Geronimo until his final days remarked the Mexicans as “treacherous and malicious...if I were young and followed the warpath, it would lead into Old