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SIZIF [17.4K]
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Why did the Irish soldiers of Saint Patrick's Brigade desert the U.S. Army and fight for Mexico

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Ad libitum [116K]3 years ago
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Many were Irish immigrants who had come to the United States to escape economic hardship, but found themselves fighting in the Mexican-American War against their adopted country. The American Protestant majority resented the Irish for being of lower socioeconomic status, and also for being Catholic. So they revolted

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