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Geronimo great Apache warrior [1]

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Date: 2024-06-12  

The name Geronimo was given to him by the Mexican Army after they suffered a major battle during the Mexican holiday: St. Geronimo Day. The birth name of Geronimo was Go-yah-kla. Geronimo was a naturally gifted hunter, who, as legend goes, as a boy he swallowed the heart of his first kill in order to ensure a life of success on the hunt. To the Apache tribe Goyahkla (Geronimo) was the essence of the best and most skilled Apache warriors, he was fearless, clever, ruthless, and honorable as a man of his word. Geronimo proved time and time again that he was the most famous Apache of them all, even among white men he was held in high esteem.

General Nelson Miles wrote in his diary:

“Geronimo is one of the brightest, most resolute, determined—looking man I have ever encountered.”—General Nelson Miles U.S. Army

At the tender age of seventeen Geronimo fell in love with a beautiful Apache girl named Alope. The two young lovers were married and had three children together. One day while out on a trading trip, Mexican soldiers attacked the camp where Geronimo’s family were set up. Geronimo’s mother, wife and three children were all killed. Geronimo went out onto a mountain and he cried for three days and when he came down from the mountain he rounded up two hundred Apache warriors and for the next ten years he hunted down and killed each one of the Mexican soldiers that had a hand in the killing of his family.

U.S. Paratroopers of World War II saw the 1940 movie “GERONIMO” the night before mass training jumps and as they fell from the sky, they all shouted “G-E-R-O-N-I-M-O !!!”

Goyahkla (Geronimo) was born on June 16th, 1869 and he died on February 17, 1909.

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