Geronimo

Geronimo (June 16, 1829 – February 17, 1909) is a prominent leader of the Bedonkohe Apache who fights against Mexico and the United States for their expansion into Apache tribal lands for several decades during the Apache Wars.

"Geronimo" is the name given to him during a battle with Mexican soldiers.

His Chiricahua name is often rendered as Goyathlay or Goyahkla in English.

After an attack by a company of Mexican soldiers kills his mother, wife and three children in 1858, Geronimo joins revenge attacks on the Mexicans.

During his career as a war chief, he is notorious for consistently urging raids upon Mexican Provinces and their towns, and later against American locations across Arizona, New Mexico and western Texas.

In 1886, Geronimo surrenders to U.S. authorities after a lengthy pursuit.

As a prisoner of war in old age, he becomes a celebrity and appears in fairs but is never allowed to return to the land of his birth.

He later regrets his surrender and claims the conditions he made had been ignored.

Geronimo dies in 1909 from complications of pneumonia at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

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