FDLT 1006: Marine Corps History I: Birth Through Civil War

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June 1837 - Henderson

"Have gone to fight the Indians, will return when the war is over."

3 March 1776

1st Amphibious Landing at New Providence, Bahamas, led by Capt Samuel Nicholas

SgtMaj Archibald Sommers

1st SgtMaj of the Marine Corps (1798)

Opha Mae Johnson

1st female marine

Veracruz, March 1847

1st major, large scale amphibious operation in Mexican American War

A. A. Cunningham

1st marine aviator

William Ward Burrows

1st official Commandant of the Marine Corps; promoted to Lieutenant Colonel

Capt. Robert Mullan

1st principle recruiting officer

Capt. Samuel Nicholas

1st traditional Commandant

Franklin Wharton

2nd Commandant

Quatrefoil

A braided rope sewn onto officer's covers to identify them as friendly units to their ship's marksmen when boarding operations were being conducted

Leathernecks

A persistent myth was that the leather collar was worn to protect Marines from sword slashes when engaged in sword fights

General Jacob Zeilin

Adopted Marine Corps emblem of the Eagle Globe and Anchor in 1868

1775-1783

American Revolution

Cpl John F. Mackie

Awarded Marine Corps 1st Medal of Honor

Aug 1814

Battle of Bladensburg

July 1861

Battle of Bull Run

September 1847

Battle of Chapultepec

Jan 1815

Battle of New Orleans

Tun Tavern, Philadelphia, PA

Birthplace of the Marine Corps

1860-1865

Civil War

April 1798

Congress established a regular Navy Department with Marines attached to each ship

1834

Congress passed the Act for the Better Organization of the Marine Corps

Globe

Depicts the western hemisphere, to show the global service and reach of the Marine Corps

Samuel Sewall

Father of the Modern Marine Corps

New Providence, Bahamas

First amphibious landing

Archibald Henderson

Grand Old Man of the Marine Corps; 3rd Commandant (January 1821); promoted to Brigadier General

16-18 September 1859

Harper's Ferry, VA

1836-1842

Indian Wars

1815-1836

Inter-War Period

November 1811

James Madison blocked all trade with Britain

18 June 1812

James Madison signed a declaration of war on Britain

April 1805

Lt O'Bannon raised the American flag over Derna -- 1st time it had been raised over Old World

10 November 1775

Marine Corps Birthday

Summer of 1800

Marine Corps' headquarters moved from Philadelphia to new national capital of Washington D.C.

1883

Marine corps motto Semper Fidelis was adopted

Major General Lewis "Chesty" Puller

Marine received 5 navy crosses

1846-1848

Mexican-American War

September 1847

Mexico City -- Halls of Montezuma

Corner of 8th and I Street

Oldest Post in the Corps

Marmeluke sword

Oldest weapon still in use today

Hamet

Presented his own Marmeluke sword to Lt O'Bannon

11 July 1798

President John Adams signed the Act for Establishing and Organizing a Marine Corps

Eagle

Symbolizes America

16 February 1815

Treaty of Ghent signed between American and Britain (drafted on 24 December 1814)

1783

Treaty of Paris signed to end war between Great Britain and United States

May 1801

Tripoli declared war against United States

Gunnery Sergeant Dan Daly and Major General Smedley Butler

Two Marines have received two Medals of Honor

1803

USS Philadelphia ran aground near Tripoli

1801-1805

War against the Barbary Pirates

War of waterways

War of 1812

Blood stripe

Worn on blue dress trousers of officers and NCOs to commemorate Marines at the Battle of Chapultepec

Anchor with rope wrapped around it

symbolizes the Marine Corps' naval traditions and roots


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