St. Patrick Battalion by Thom James Alexander

Author:Thom, James Alexander [Thom, James Alexander]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Cardinal Publishers Group
Published: 2012-04-11T04:00:00+00:00

The commandante also authorized the San Patricios unit to serve under its own Irish banner. Imagine that! Captain Moreno said that Señor Riley and some of his gunners designed the banner themselves, and asked the nuns of the San Luis convent to stitch it onto a field of green silk. Captain Moreno described it: Depicting San Patricio, with his staff upon a snake; on the other side, a harp, the symbol of Ireland, and these words, “Erin go Bragh” and “Libertad por la Republica Mexicana.”

Those are beautiful symbols and words, most touching to the heart in times like these. The newspapers are enchanted with the Irishmen, as a part of the general patriotic fervor. General Santa Anna has taken a loan of two million pesos offered by the Church to help him fund the building of the army. Morever, he has committed much of his own personal fortune.

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