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Revolutionary War
The Revolutionary War begins -
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The Revolutionary War
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The Marine Corps Is Born
Captain Samuel Nicholas formed two battalions of Continental Marines on 10 November 1775 in Philadelphia as naval infantry -
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The Marines: 236 Years
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Disbanding
At the end of the American Revolution, both the Continental Navy and Continental Marines were disbanded in April 1783 -
The Act To Provide A Naval Armament
Authorized the Navy to have specified the numbers of Marines to be recruited for each frigate -
Resurrection
The Marine Corps was eventualy resurrected in 1798 in preparation for the Quasi-War with France -
The Quasi-War
The Quasi-War begins -
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The Quasi-War
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The First Barbary War
The First Barbary War started. During this war, First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon led eight Marines and 500 mercenaries in an effort to capture Tripoli; this is where the Marine Corps Hymn got the line, "...To the shores of Tripoli" -
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The First Barbary War
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The War Of 1812
The war of 1812 begins; The Marines most significant contributions were delaying the British march to Washington, D.C. at the Battle of Bladensburg and holding the center of Gen. Andrew Jackson's defensive line at the defense of New Orleans -
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The War Of 1812
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The Second Barbary War
The Second Barbary War was fought. The U.S. had only 10 ships, but even so the U.S. won only suffering 14 total casualties -
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The Second Barbary War
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The Seminole Wars
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Fith Commandant
Archibald Henderson became the fifth commandant of the Marine Cops in 1820. Under his command, the Corps took on expeditionary duties in the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, Key West, West Africa, the Falkland Islands, and Sumatra -
Act For The Better Organization Of The Marine Corps
The Corps was part of the Department of the Navy as a sister service to the Navy -
The Seminole War
Commandant Henderson volunteered the Marines for service in the Seminole Wars of 1835, personally leading nearly half of the entire Corps (two battalions) to war -
The Mexican-American War
The Mexican-American War Starts; the Marines made their famed assault on Chapultepec Palace in Mexico City, which would be later celebrated by the phrase "From The Halls of Montezuma" in Marines' hymn -
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The Mexican-American War
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The American Civil War
The American Civil War started -
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The American Civil War
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The Eagle, Globe, And Anchor
The Corps adopted the Marine Corps emblem -
Semper Fi
The Marines adopted their current motto "Semper Fidelis" (Always Faithful) -
The Banana Wars
The Banana Wars started; operations and occupations in Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic -
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The Banana Wars
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The Spanish-American War
Marines led American forces ashore in the Philippines, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, demonstrating their readiness for deployment. At Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the Marines seized an advanced naval base that remains in use today -
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The Spanish–American War
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The Philippine-American War
The Philippine-American War starts -
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The Philippine-American War
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The Boxer Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion starts -
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The Boxer Rebellion
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World War One
World War One started; during this war, Marines and American media reported that Germans had nicknamed them Teufel Hunden as meaning "Devil Dogs" (one of the Marines' famous nicknames), there is no evidence of this in German records -
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World War One
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World War Two
World War Two starts; the Marines played a central role in the Pacific War. The battles of Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Tarawa, Guam, Tinian, Saipan, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa saw fierce fighting between Marines and the Imperial Japanese Army. During the battle of Iwo Jima, photographer Joe Rosenthal took the famous photograph "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima." -
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World War Two
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The Korean War
The Korean War starts; the hastily formed Provisional Marine Brigade held the defensive line at the Pusan Perimeter. To execute a flanking maneuver, General Douglas MacArthur called on Marine air and ground forces to make an amphibious landing at Inchon -
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The Korean War
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The Vietnam War
The first American troops arrive in Vietnam; The Marine Corps served an important role in the Vietnam War taking part in such battles as Da Nang, Hue City, Con Thien and Khe Sanh. Marines were withdrawn in 1971, and returned briefly in 1975 to evacuate Saigon and attempt a rescue of the crew of the Mayagüez -
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The Vietnam War
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The Gulf War
During the Persian Gulf War, Marine task forces formed the initial core for Operation Desert Shield, while United States and Coalition troops mobilized, and later liberated Kuwait in Operation Desert Storm -
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The Gulf War
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The Somali Conflict
The Somali Conflict starts; Marines participated in combat operations in Somalia during Operations Restore Hope, Restore Hope II, and United Shield to provide humanitarian relief. -
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The Somali Conflict
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The Kosovo War
The Kosovo War starts -
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The Kosovo War
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The War On Terror
Following the attacks on the World Trade Center, President George W. Bush announced the War on Terrorism. The stated objective of the Global War on Terror is "the defeat of Al-Qaeda, other terrorist groups and any nation that supports or harbors terrorists." Since then, the Marine Corps, alongside other military and federal agencies, has engaged in global operations around the world in support of that mission -
Operation Enduring Freedom
Operation Enduring Freedom starts; Marines and other American forces began staging in Pakistan and Uzbekistan on the border of Afghanistan in preparation for Operation Enduring Freedom. The 15th and 26th Marine Expeditionary Units were the first conventional forces into Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in November 2001, and in December, the Marines seized Kandahar International Airport -
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Operation Enduring Freedom
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The Iraq War
The Iraq War starts; recently, the Marines have served prominently in the Iraq War. The I Marine Expeditionary Force, along with the Army's 3rd Infantry Division, spearheaded the 2003 invasion of Iraq -
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The Iraq War
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Flooding
Marines of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit flooded into the Taliban-held town of Garmsir, in Helmand province, in the first major American operation in the region in years -
Withdrawal
President Obama announced an accelerated withdrawal at Camp Lejeune, promising all troops out by August 2010 -
Operation Strike Of The Sword
7,000 Marines with the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade deployed to Afghanistan in an effort to improve security
