Apache Fighters Cochise and Geronimo

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Fergus M Bordewich, Fierce Echoes From the Frontier. Among Cochise's followers was an Apache warrior whose martial fame would so far eclipse his mentor's that American pararoopers would shout out his name when leaping from airplanes during World War II. Wall Street Journal, Apr 20, 2013
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 26634203336120.html
(book review on two books: Terry Mort, The Wrath of Cochise; The Bascom Affair and the Origins of teh Apache Wars. Pegasus, 2013; and Robert M Utley, Geronimo, Yale University Press, 2012)

Quote: "Mr Mort, a former naval officer, draws an acute contrast between the Anglo and Apache styles of fighting. Americans were trained in tactical doctrines that had barely changed since the time of Napoleon—essentially a combination of artillery preparation followed by infantry assaults with the bayonet. Apache tactics were precisely the opposite, relying on small, fast-moving groups who exploited stealth and concealment and attacked only when they felt certain of victory. Lacking the population to replace men killed, the Apache strove to avoid casualties and were astonished by the Army's willingness to take losses. They failed to realize that no matter how many Americans they killed, and how many times they eluded their pursuers, they could never prevail, since the U.S. could draw from a vast supply of recruits and resources beyond the Indians' imagining.

Note:
(1) Cochise
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochise
(Apache for "oak"; c 1805-1874; described as a large man (for the time): about 1.78 m (5'10") tall and weighed about 175 lbs)
(section 1.1 Border tensions and fighting; After making peace [by signing a treaty in 1872 with US], Cochise retired to his new reservation [Chiricahua Reservation in Arizona])
(a) Apache Pass
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Pass
(b) View the photo ONLY in
Bascom Affair
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bascom_Affair
(c) There is no separage Wiki page for Georg N Bascom.

(2) Geronimo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geronimo
("one who yawns"; 1829-1909; "In 1886 Geronimo surrendered to US authorities after a lengthy pursuit. As a prisoner of war in old age he became a celebrity and appeared in fairs but was never allowed to return to the land of his birth")
(3) Apache
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache
(The Apachean tribes were historically very strong and strategic, opposing the Spanish and Mexican peoples for centuries; section 2 Name and synonyms)
(4) The review comments both books are "crisply written."

crisp (adj):
"3a : notably sharp, clean-cut, and clear <a crisp illustration>; also : concise and to the point <a crisp reply>
* * *
c : brisk, lively <a crisp tale of intrigue> <crisp musical tempi>"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crisp

(5) The review states, "One group of hapless [white] teamsters was tied [by Apache warroirs] on wagon wheels and roasted alive."
(a) teamster (n): "a driver of a team of horses used for haulage"
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged. HarperCollins, various years.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/teamster
(b) teamster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teamster
(A teamster, in modern American English, is a truck driver; Originally, the term "teamster" referred to a person who drove a team of draft animals, usually a wagon drawn by oxen, horses, or mules)

(6) The review quotes an author as pondering: "Why did Cochise, as older man, wise in councils and respected by his tribe, respond the way he did?"
(a) Most often, it is "wise in council."
(b) council (n; Middle English counseil, from Old French conseil, [ultinately from Latin] cōnsulere, to take counsel, consult):
"the discussion or deliberation that takes place in such an assembly or body"
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed. Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/council

Please read Usage Note in the URL: council and Counsel share the same Old English and Old French root--and consul share with the other two for the Latin (but not Old English pr Old French) root.

(7) Nelson A Miles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_A._Miles
(1839-1925)

* The English surname Miles is "from the Germanic personal name Milo [which is also the Latinized form], of unknown etymology. The name was introduced to England by the Normans in the form Miles."
(8) geronimo's 'Mexican" victims lived in deserts and mountains of Sonora and Chihuahua.
(a) Sonora
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonora
(section 1 Etymology)
(b) Chihuahua
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chihuahua_(state)
(Its capital city is Chihuahua; Chihuahua is the largest state in Mexico by area; "The etymology of the name Chihuahua has long been disputed by historians and linguists. The most accepted theory explains that the name was derived from the Nahuatl language meaning 'The place where the water of the rivers meet'")

(9) The review remarks that after retirement, Geronimo "joined Dutch Reform Church."

Dutch Reformed Church
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Reformed_Church
(1571-2004)