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The General and the Apaches.


I don't know the fictional date of this movie but it is probably an anachronism. In it an Apache chief is killed and his son Mangus Colorado seeks revenge.

Mangus Coloradas (Spanish for "Red Sleeves")was the chief of the Mimbres Apaches from about 1837 to 1864, when he was murdered at the orders of General James West. General Crook is also a character in the movie and he did not come to Arizona until 1871. it is true that in the 1880s the son of Mangus Coloradas was one of the Apache leaders who fought and negotiated with General Crook, but his name was plan Mangus, with no Coloradas.

At the beginning of the minor western Apache Ambush , the hero tells Abraham Lincoln in 1865 that his last few years in "The Army of the Southwest" under General Cook or Crook involved fighting Apaches morning, noon, and night.

In Taza Son of Cochise Brigadier General Crook is the commander in Arizona in 1874, one of the few accurate historical facts in the film (which despite all its many inaccuracies is still much more historically accurate than most Indian wars films).

In Geronimo (1962) an army manual is dated 1880 and Grover Cleveland is President while General Crook fights Geronimo. Geronimo, whose right hand man is Mangus (obviously supposed to be the son of Mangus Coloradas), becomes the father of a son at the end.

In Indian Uprising General crook is fighting Geronimo who has a teenage Son. If These five movies all take place in the same ficitional suniverse and the teenage son in Indian Uprising was the son born at the end of [I] Geronimo {/I] (1962) the movie General Crook would have been fighting hostile Apaches for thirty or forty years with possible breaks.

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