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Geronimo: The Final Battle Of The Fort Apache

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The Apache “last stand” as it were, was lead by a medicine man and renowned warrior known as Geronimo. Geronimo and his followers had rebelled from the Fort Apache reservation due to the hostile treatment they’d received from the United States military. According to The Journal of Arizona History by Dan L. Thrapp, “In mid-may, 1885, Geronimo and his followers fled the Fort Apache Reservation and remained hostile for fifteen months.” (208). Geronimo’s band held a population of thirty-three men, eight boys of fighting age, and ninety-two women and children. Most United States ' histories of this era report that the final defeat of an Apache band took place when 5,000 US troops forced Geronimo 's band to surrender on September 4, 1886, at

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