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To: ManyMoose who wrote (333485)	11/11/2009 2:25:41 AM
From: average joe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793955

Thanks, looks like a good read, will check it out. amazon.com Do you know anything of this Irish history? I had no idea about it until a Mexican that works for our company brought it to my attention. "One interesting aspect of the war involves the fate of U.S. Army deserters of Irish origin who joined the Mexican Army as the Batallón San Patricio (Saint Patrick's Battalion). This group of Catholic Irish immigrants rebelled at the abusive treatment by Protestant, American-born officers and at the treatment of the Catholic Mexican population by the U.S. Army. At this time in American history, Catholics were an ill-treated minority, and the Irish were an unwanted ethnic group in the United States. In September, 1847, the U.S. Army hanged sixteen surviving members of the San Patricios as traitors. To this day, they are considered heroes in Mexico." google.ca en.wikipedia.org