英语词汇geronimo的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Geronimo! Chiricahua Apache leader Geronimo is said to have made a daring leap on horseback to escape U.S. cavalry pursuers at Medicine Bluffs, Oklahoma. As he leaped to free- dom down a steep cliff and into a river below he supposedly cried out his name in defiance of the troopers. There is no men- tion of this incident in the great warrior and prophet’s autobi- ography, which he dictated to a white writer before his death under military confinement at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in 1909. But by that time Geronimo was an old man, well over 70, and had converted to the Dutch Reformed Church; little remained of the brave leader who in protecting his people’s land against white settlers had terrorized the American Southwest and northern Mexico with cunning, brutal raids and whose actions became western legend. The cry Geronimo! is part of that legend and was adopted as the battle cry of American para- troopers leaping from their planes in World War II. The 82nd Airborne at Fort Bragg, North Carolina first used it, taking it either from the oral legend about Geronimo or from the popu- lar movie featuring the Indian warrior, showing near the para- trooper training center at the time.

词汇	geronimo
词源	Geronimo! Chiricahua Apache leader Geronimo is said to have made a daring leap on horseback to escape U.S. cavalry pursuers at Medicine Bluffs, Oklahoma. As he leaped to free- dom down a steep cliff and into a river below he supposedly cried out his name in defiance of the troopers. There is no men- tion of this incident in the great warrior and prophet’s autobi- ography, which he dictated to a white writer before his death under military confinement at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in 1909. But by that time Geronimo was an old man, well over 70, and had converted to the Dutch Reformed Church; little remained of the brave leader who in protecting his people’s land against white settlers had terrorized the American Southwest and northern Mexico with cunning, brutal raids and whose actions became western legend. The cry Geronimo! is part of that legend and was adopted as the battle cry of American para- troopers leaping from their planes in World War II. The 82nd Airborne at Fort Bragg, North Carolina first used it, taking it either from the oral legend about Geronimo or from the popu- lar movie featuring the Indian warrior, showing near the para- trooper training center at the time.
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