The soldiers of Saint Patrick’s Battalion are regarded as national heroes in Mexico and Ireland. M arch 17 is, of course, St. Patrick’s Day (known in Gaelic as Lá Fhéile Pá ...

As the United States invaded Mexico in 1846, Los Patricios, a group of immigrants, took up arms for Mexico to defend their ...

Worth, during the Mexican-American War ... he sent American troops to Texas in January of 1846 to provoke the Mexicans into war. When the Mexicans fired on American troops in April 25, 1846 ...

This was never truer than in the post Mexican American War (1846-1848) era where the volunteers were discharged from Federal service and the authorized numbers of U.S. Soldiers were decreased to ...

St. Patrick’s Battalion, a unit of the Mexican Army, was composed mainly of Irish Catholic immigrants who deserted the U.S. Army and fled to Mexico during the war, which lasted from 1846-48.

"Incidents of the war: A harvest of death ... Approximate number of American battlefield deaths in the Mexican War, 1846-1848 900 — Approximate number of battlefield deaths in 12 hours at ...