Batallon de San Patricio, cap badge

The Battalion pipe band is in Glasgow for the World Championships, the first Mexican band to participate. Perhaps worth explaining why there is a Mexican pipe band, and why they are called the Batallon de San Patricio. During the 1846 - 48 Mexican/American War, Scots and Irish volunteers (amongst others) signed up to fight for the Mexicans when they saw that the same oppression they had suffered at home was being exacted on the Mexicans. Arguably. Many deserted the American Army to join the Mexicans, and eventually suffered execution as a result. So, Saint Patrick's Batallion.