Item
Event
Janos (Example)
- Title
- Janos (Example)
- Date
- 1851-03-05 See all items with this value
- Description
- A company of 400 Mexican soldiers led by Colonel José MarÃa Carrasco attack Geronimo's camp outside Janos (kas-Ki-Yeh in Apache) while men were in town trading. Carrasco justified the attack because of a claim that the Apaches had conducted a raid in Sonora, taking livestock and other plunder after badly defeating the Mexican militia. Geronimo's wife, children, and mother were killed. The loss of his family resulted in Geronimo's lifelong hatred of Mexicans.
- Place
- Janos;Sonora;Chihuahua;Mexico
- Temporal Coverage
- Early Life of Geronimo
- References
- Debo, Angie (1996). Geronimo, The Man, His Time, His Place. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-08-06118-28-4.;Utley, Robert M. (2012). Geronimo. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-03-00198-36-2.;Haugen, Brenda (2005). Geronimo: Apache Warrior. Capstone. pp. 9–12. ISBN 978-0756518455. Archived from the original on September 15, 2019. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
- Agent
- https://wiigwaasabak.chippewa.dev/api/items/44
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