Seeking to escape ignoble lives in their homeland, Irishmen of the Saint Patrick’s Battalion risked the hangman’s rope to fight in the Mexican War. On the morning of Sept. 10, 1847, as dawn broke over the Mexican village of San Ángel, a detail of U.S. soldiers entered a large stone cell, unchained 23 men—most of …
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