SPONSORS

The UK REDSKINS would like to thank the following people/ organisations for their support in previous years and currently.

Click on a name for a link to their individual web page...

• KEE Action Sports
• Empire Paintball
• A.C. Eales Building Ltd
• Laserite
• London International Paintball Supplies
• Spire Hartswood Hospital
• Trophyland

Geronimo -1829 to 1909

Geronimo or "one who yawns", was a prominent Native American leader of the Chiricahua Apache who fought against Mexico and the United States for their expansion into Apache tribal lands for several decades during the Apache Wars. Allegedly, "Geronimo" was the name given to him during a Mexican incident.

After an attack in 1858 by a company of Mexican soldiers who killed many members of his family, Geronimo joined several revenge attacks on the Mexicans. During his career as a war chief, Geronimo was notorious for consistently urging raids and war upon Mexican Provinces and their various towns, and later against American locations across Arizona, New Mexico, and western Texas.

In 1886 Geronimo surrendered to U.S. authorities after a lengthy pursuit. As a prisoner of war in old age he became a celebrity and appeared in many state fairs but was never allowed to return to the land of his birth. He later regretted his surrender and claimed the conditions he made had been ignored. Geronimo died in 1909 from complications of pneumonia at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.