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    The Saint Patrick's Battalion (Spanish: Batallón de San Patricio), later reorganized as the Foreign Legion of Patricios, was a Mexican Army unit which...
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    Héroes, the Child Heroes or Heroic Cadets. Thirty men from the Saint Patrick's Battalion, a group of former United States Army soldiers who joined the...
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    Defectors in the ranks who defected to Mexico, where they formed the Saint Patrick's Battalion in the Mexican Army. Riley was born in Clifden, County Galway...
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    Saint Patrick's Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick (Irish: Lá Fhéile Pádraig, lit. 'the Day of the Festival of Patrick'), is a religious and cultural holiday...
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  • was a native of County Mayo, Ireland who later served with the Saint Patrick's Battalion. He had deserted the U.S. army 8th Infantry on 17 May 1846, and...
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    the U.S. Army was only 5 miles (8 km) away from Mexico City. 50 Saint Patrick's Battalion members were officially executed by the U.S. Army, all but two...
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  • St. Patrick's or Saint Patrick's may refer to: Saint Patrick, the Catholic patron saint of Ireland Saint Patrick's Day, the saint's feast day St. Patrick's...
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  • film is a dramatization of the true story of John Riley and the Saint Patrick's Battalion, a group of Irish Catholic immigrants who desert the mostly Protestant...
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  • served in Mexican Army during the Mexican-American War and founded Saint Patrick's Battalion Guillermo Sheridan, Mexican writer of Irish descent Justo Sierra...
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    the Saint Patrick's Battalion to fight for the Mexicans against the U.S. forces. The great majority of those who made up the Saint Patrick's Battalion were...
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