Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
This St. Patrick’s Day, Mexico will honor the Irish as war heroes, specifically a unit that fought in the Mexican-American War. Following the Battle of Churubusco in 1847, the US Army captured thousands of enemy combatants. Hundreds of the men were whipped, branded, and otherwise tortured, and 50 of them were hanged.
The men who died that day were not ordinary enemy fighters. They were captured soldiers from El Batallón de San Patricio, or the Saint Patrick’s Battalion, who had fought fiercely in…
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