![]() In the morning, Ahrens' company commander, Capt Lewis Walt (later 4 Star General Lew Walt), found Ahrens in his fighting hole. Ahrens stood his ground, securing the right flank of the line. That night the Japanese lunched a vicious counterattack. Ahrensĭuring the Battle for Guadalcanal, the 1st Marine Raider Battalion landed on the island of Tulagi, with 22 year old, 140 pound PFC Edward Ahrens among them. I guess they didn't know I was a Marine." - Last words of Private First Class Edward H. "The bastards tried to come over me last night. RIP Nantan Goyatle, and all the warriors that never returned from the trail to their wikiups. It remains the longest confinement in US Military history. The Chiricahuas served 27 years of incarceration, before being released in 1913. Deportation to Oklahoma, and what turned out to be a life sentence for him followed. When he finally handed over his rifle to General miles in September of 1886, there were only 38 people left in his band half of them warriors. Geronimo was painted into a corner marked "unconditional surrender". There were no bargaining chips left on the table from the 1884 talks. He boiled down to 19 warriors even resorted to child warriors. By 1886, the pickings reached an all time low. They would destroy winter stores piled up from summer operations in Mexico and Arizona/New Mexico. Every water hole, hiding place, arms cache, cave warehouses etc., were known to them. They knew everything about him, the tribe and its refuges on both sides of the border. Those Army scouts were the albatross around his neck. Every scout was a warrior, but not every warrior became scouts. The Army offered adult males jobs as scouts. He even found himself competing with the US Cavalry for Apache men. ![]() It became very difficult to recruit warriors from the reservations, as was the custom in earlier years. So, you be the judge.īy 1884, he was in a bind. That Empire State Building sized horror, fell on one man all on the same day. ![]() The dead included his mother Juana, wife Alope, and their three infant daughters. Full disclosure: he came home from what would pass for a shopping trip one day in 1851, and found his entire camp slaughtered by Mexican troops from Janos, Mexico. This nantan was blinded by revenge on the Mexicans. Many Apaches think he caused unnecessary decimation of the Chiricahua people that he remained in the field too long, causing avoidable deaths. ![]() THE CHIRICAHUA APACHE NANTAN, GOYATLE (GERONIMO) IN WAR CAP:Īpache nantans led from the front, so he might just be checking up on the column behind him. ![]()
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