Happy 237th Birthday!
BIRTH OF THE UNITED STATES MARINES:
The legacy of the United States Marine Corps was born on November 10, 1775, when Congrerss commissioned Robert Mullan, the proprietor of Tun Tavern, located on Philadelphia's historic waterfront to raise the first two battalions of Marines, under the leadership of Samuel Nicholas, the first appointed Commandant of the Continental Marings. The U.S. Marines have been the first branch of the armed forces to serve in every war since that day, and have mounted over 300 assaults on foreign shores, from the artic to the tropics.
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in which the overall American casualties (killed and wounded)
exceeded those of the Japanese, although Japanese combat
deaths were thrice those of the Americans,
(en.wikipedia.org)
Thank you for this interesting and timely post about the U.S. Marines. Semper Fi!
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