The Unhoarse Saxons

The kid is the main character and he's taken up with a group of filibusters or irregulars. A filibuster is basically a warrior soldier in a foreign land where he waged war who stays on after the war is over continuing the work of a soldier but this time for private pay. An irregular troop is an illegal group of men who are carrying out military objectives for someone usually the government of the country they're living in. This happened in real life there was a real group of filibuster after the Mexican-American war because up until about 1850 the great planes uh work and tested over in northern mexico by the spanish had been handed over to the mexicans  by the