Mexican people of Irish descent

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Chapters: Anthony Quinn, Saint Patrick's Battalion, Juan O'Gorman, Álvaro Obregón, Leonora Carrington, Sara Ramírez, Philip Crosthwaite, Irish immigration to Mexico, Enrique Creel, John Holloway, Edmundo O'Gorman, William Lamport, Santiago Creel, Pablo O'Higgins, Carlos Gallardo, Margo, Hugo Oconór, Justo Sierra O'Reilly, Edgardo Coghlan, Tomas O'Horan, Cristina Fink, Rómulo O'Farril, Álvaro Obregón Tapia, Alejo Bay, Luis Humberto Crosthwaite, Dolores Creel Miranda. Excerpt: The Saint Patrick's Battalion (Spanish: ), 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 to 1848. Most of the battalion's members had deserted or defected from the U. S. Army. Made up primarily of ethnic Irish and German Catholic immigrants, the battalion included Canadians, English, French, Italians, Poles, Scots, Spaniards, Swiss, and native Mexicans, most of whom were Roman Catholics. Disenfranchised Americans were in the ranks, including escaped slaves from the American South. 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 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, the 6th 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. For Americans of the generation who fought the Mexican-American War, the San Patricios were considered traitors. For Mexicans of that generation, and generations to come, the San Patricios were heroes who came to the aid of fellow Catholics in need. The great majority of these men were recent immigrants who had arrived at northeastern U. S. ports, part of the Irish diaspora's escaping the Irish Potato Famine and extremely poor economic conditions in Ireland, then part of the United Kin