The St. Patrick's Battalion- El Batallón De Los San Patricos
by rgvirish (2019-03-17 14:21:14)
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I try to listen to the song below every St. Patrick's Day. The song probably means a little more to me since I'm a Tejano that went to a school whose teams are named "The Fighting Irish".

The Mexican American War was fairly discussed by our Texas History high school teachers in the 1960s and 1970s. Probably since I grew up right by the Rio Grande River.

El Batallón de los San Patricios,(The St. Patrick's Battalion),role in that war was mentioned only in passing. It was when I went to ND and heard the stories of "Irish Need Not Apply", (and other discriminatory acts to Irish Catholics), did it make sense to me why a group of Irish soldiers would desert the US Army and join the Mexicans.





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