Jon Riley Military person

Jon Patrick Riley (Irish: Seán Pádraic Ó Raghallaigh), also known as John Patrick O'Riley, (c. 1805 – August 1850), a United States Army private, was one of the several hundred immigrant Catholic Irishmen who defected from the US Army and formed the Saint Patrick's Battalion to fight for Mexico in the 1846-48 Mexican-American War. Riley led the battalion as a brevet major commissioned by Mexico.

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Jon Riley
Birth dateFebruary 08, 1824
Birth place
Clifden , Ireland
Date of deathOctober 10, 1879
Place of death
Veracruz , Mexico

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allegiance
United Kingdom
United States
Mexican United States
military operations
Battle of Buena Vista
Battle of Monterrey
Siege of Fort Texas
Mexican–American War
Battle of Cerro Gordo
Battle of Churubusco
military branch
British Army
United States Army
Mexican Army

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