Mexico Pays Homage to its own ‘Fighting Irish’
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS On Monday, Sept. 12, Mexico pays homage to 83 Irish immigrants who fought beside Mexican soldiers in the 1846 invasion of Mexico by the United States. The Saint Patrick Brigade, as this martyred group of Irish soldiers came to be known, had originally been drafted into the U.S. Army by General Zachary Taylor to invade Mexico in
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