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The St. Patrick’s Battalion, a unit of Irish defectors from the U.S. Army, made their last stand alongside the Mexican Army at Churubusco in 1847. (Library of COngress)
The St. Patrick’s Battalion, a unit of Irish defectors from the U.S. Army, made their last stand alongside the Mexican Army at Churubusco in 1847. (Library of COngress)