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Irish Affairs

Xipe Totec

(44,378 posts) Mon Sep 24, 2012, 09:06 PM Sep 2012

Because Mexicans will never forget their sacrifice [View all]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick%27s_Battalion

In memory of the Irish soldiers of the heroic St. Patrick's Battalion. Martyrs who gave their lives for Mexico's cause during the unjust Norht American invasion of 1847.

With the gratitude of Mexico, 112 years after their sacrifice, September 1959.

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