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- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion abstract "The Saint Patrick's Battalion (Spanish: Batallón de San Patricio), formed and led by Jon Riley, was a unit of 175 to several hundred immigrants (accounts vary) and expatriates of European descent who fought as part of the Mexican Army against the United States in the Mexican–American War of 1846-8. Most of the battalion's members had deserted or defected from the United States Army.Comprised primarily of Catholic Irish and German immigrants, the battalion also included Canadians, English, French, Italians, Poles, Scots, Spaniards, Swiss, and Mexican people, most of whom were members of the Catholic Church. Disenfranchised Americans were in the ranks, including escaped slaves from the Southern United States. The Mexican government offered incentives to foreigners who would enlist in its army: granting them citizenship, paying higher wages than the U.S. Army and the offer of generous land grants. Only a few members of the Saint Patrick's Battalion were actual U.S. citizens.Members of the Battalion are known to have deserted from U.S. Army regiments including: the 1st Artillery, the 2nd Artillery, the 3rd Artillery, the 4th Artillery, the 2nd Dragoons, the 2nd Infantry, the 3rd Infantry, the 4th Infantry, the 5th Infantry, the6th Infantry, the 7th Infantry and the 8th Infantry.The Battalion served as an artillery unit for much of the war. Despite later being formally designated as infantry, it still retained artillery pieces throughout the conflict. In many ways, the battalion acted as the sole Mexican counter-balance to U.S. horse artillery.".
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion activeYearsEndYear "1848".
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion activeYearsStartYear "1846".
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion battle Battle_for_Mexico_City.
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion battle Battle_of_Buena_Vista.
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion battle Battle_of_Cerro_Gordo.
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion battle Battle_of_Churubusco.
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion battle Battle_of_Monterrey.
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion battle Mexican%E2%80%93American_War.
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion battle Siege_of_Fort_Texas.
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion colourName "Crimson".
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion colourName "Sky Blue".
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion colourName "Turkish Blue".
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion colourName "Yellow".
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion country Mexico.
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion militaryBranch Mexican_Army.
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion militaryUnitSize "est. 700+ maximum strength".
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion motto "Erin go bragh (An anglicisation of the Irish for "Ireland forever")".
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion notableCommander Brevet_(military).
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion notableCommander Captain_(armed_forces).
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion notableCommander Sergeant.
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion patron Saint_Patrick.
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion thumbnail Erin_Go_Bragh_Banner.svg?width=300.
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion type Artillery.
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion type Infantry.
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- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion align "left".
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion align "right".
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion battles "*Battle for Mexico City".
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion battles "*Battle of Buena Vista".
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion battles "*Battle of Cerro Gordo".
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion battles "*Battle of Churubusco".
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion battles "*Battle of Monterrey".
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion battles "*Siege of Fort Texas".
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion battles "Mexican–American War".
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- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion branch Mexican_Army.
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion caption "Reconstruction of the battalion's flag as described by Jon Riley.".
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion colonelOfTheRegiment "Francisco R. Moreno".
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion colors "Crimson".
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion colors "Sky Blue".
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion colors "Turkish Blue".
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion colors "Yellow".
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion country Mexico.
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion date "September 2010".
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion dates "1846".
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion hasPhotoCollection Saint_Patrick's_Battalion.
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion image patrick-eire1997-JointIssueMexico.jpg.
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion motto "Erin go bragh".
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion nickname "Los San Patricios, Los Colorados Valientes".
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion notableCommanders "Brevet Major Jon Riley".
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion notableCommanders "Captain Santiago O'Leary".
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion notableCommanders "Sergeant Prisciliano Almitrano".
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion patron Saint_Patrick.
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion quote ""Preferring to fight with the Catholic Mexicans against the Protestant Americans, the San Patricios were the only group of deserters in American history to band together in the service of a foreign enemy."".
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion size "est. 700+ maximum strength".
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion source "Peter Quinn, Looking for Jimmy: A Search for Irish America".
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion type Artillery.
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion type Infantry.
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion unitName "Saint Patrick's Battalion".
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion width "300".
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion width "35.0".
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- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion subject Category:Expatriate_units_and_formations.
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion subject Category:History_of_Catholicism_in_the_United_States.
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion subject Category:Irish-American_culture.
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion subject Category:Irish-American_history.
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion subject Category:Irish-American_history_and_culture_in_Texas.
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion subject Category:Irish_diaspora.
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion subject Category:Irish_regiments.
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion subject Category:Mexican_people_of_Irish_descent.
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion subject Category:Military_units_and_formations_of_the_Mexican–American_War.
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion subject Category:Prisoners_of_war_massacres.
- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion type Abstraction100002137.
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- Saint_Patrick's_Battalion type MilitaryUnitsAndFormationsOfTheMexican%E2%80%93AmericanWar.
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