"…until victory is America’s and there is no enemy, but Peace."
10 November, 2006 by cerberusblog
On Friday, 10 November 1775, the Continental Congress passed a resolution authorizing the creation of two regiments of Marines. What followed was 231 years of making Marines and winning America’s battles.
- Revolutionary War 1775-1783
- First raid on Nassau Town, Bahamas
- First combat action by U.S. Marines
- Raid on Whitehaven, England
- First Marine landing in the Old World
- Battle of Princeton
- Second Battle of Trenton
- Capture of the HMS Serapis
- Defense of Charleston
- Assault on Fort George - Penobscot Expedition
- Banks Island
- First opposed amphibious landing by U.S. Marines
- Second Raid on Nassau
- First raid on Nassau Town, Bahamas
- Quasi-War with France (French Naval War) 1798-1801
- Battle at Curacao, Netherlands Antilles
- Raid on Puerto Plata, Hispaniola
- Blockade of Jacmel, Haiti
- Capture of former British ship H.M.S. Sanwich and the port of Santo Domingo
- Caribbean Pirates Campaigns 1798-1826
- Suppressed mutiny aboard the Congress 1800
- First Barbary War 1801-1805 “…to the shores of Tripoli…”
- Raid on Tripoli
- Assault on Fortress at Derna
- 600 mile march across desert from Alexandria
- First American flag to fly over an Old World outpost.
- “The most bold and daring act of the age” - Admiral Horatio Nelson
- Suppressed mutiny aboard the President 1803
- Leopard-Chesapeake Affair 1807
- Suppressed mutiny aboard the Constitution 1807
- West African Anti-Slavery Patrol 1808-1861
- Battle of 12 Mile Swamp Florida 1812
- War of 1812 1812-1815
- Battle of Fort George (Ontario)
- Battle of Craney Island
- Battle of Lake Erie
- Battle of Bladensburg - Defense of the District of Columbia
- Battle of Lake Champlain
- Battle of New Orleans
- Capture of HMS Seringapatam near the Marquesas 1814
- By the Greenwich commanded by Marine Lt. Gamble and crewed by 31 Marines
- Gamble’s Landing, and Seringapatam Mutiny Marquesas 1814
- Seizure of Nukahiva, Marquesas 1813
- First U.S. base in the Pacific
- Raid on Jean Laffite’s base at Barataria, Louisiana 1814
- Second Barbary War 1815
- Mexican Gulf Pirates Campaign 1815-1819
- Aegean Pirates Campaign 1822-1827
- Landings and expeditions on Argenteire, Miconi and Androse Islands
- Suppressed Boston Prison Riot 1824
- Raid at Cape Fajardo, Puerto Rico, Spain 1824
- First intervention in Latin America
- Suppressed “Nat Turner’s Rebellion” 1831
- Falkland Islands 1831-1832
- First Battle of Quallah Batoo, Sumatra 1832
- Raid on Buenos Aires (Puerto Soledad), Argentina 1833
- Peruvian Insurrection, Callao & Lima, Peru 1834-1835
- Potomac Mutiny, Puerto Mahon, Baleaic Islands 1836
- Florida War (Second Seminole War) 1836-1842
- “Mosquito Fleet” patrols
- Second Battle of Quallah Batoo 1838
- Raid on Pirates at Mukee, Sumatra 1839
- Protection of U.S. nationals, Monterey, California 1840
- Rescued scientific expedition in Fiji 1840
- Punitive raid on Upolu Island, Samoa 1841
- Punitive raid on Drummond Island, Kingsmill Group 1841
- Occupation of Monterey, California, Mexico 1842
- Occupation of San Diego, California, Mexico 1842
- Anti-slave landings along Ivory Coast 1842
- Protection of U.S. nationals, Canton, China 1843
- Montevideo, Uruguay 1844
- War with Mexico 1846-1848
- Capture of Monterey, California
- Capture of Santa Clara, California
- Capture of San Gabriel, California
- Capture of San Jose, California
- Amphibious landing at Veracruz, Mexico
- Stormed Chapultepec Castle “From the Halls of Montezuma…”
- Raised U.S. Flag over Palacio Nacional in Mexico City
- Buenos Aires, Argentina 1852
- Buenos Aires, Argentina 1852-1853
- Arrest of slavers’ expedition at San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua 1853
- Admiral Perry’s East India Squadron Expedition to Japan 1853-1854
- Shanghai, China 1854
- Tumai, Ryuku Islands 1854
- Protection of U.S. nationals at San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua 1854
- Naha, Okinawa 1854
- Shanghai, China 1855
- Ty-Ho Bay, Hong Kong 1855
- Protection of U.S. Consul Ovalau, Fiji 1855
- Protection of U.S. nationals during revolt at Montevideo, Uruguay1855
- Indian Battle, Seattle 1856
- Protection of the trans-isthmian railway Panama, Columbia 1856
- Protection of U.S. nationals Canton, China 1856
- Arrest of William Walker at Punta Arenas, Nicaragua 1857
- Slave trader and self-proclaimed president of Nicaragua
- Punitive expedition Waya, Fiji 1858
- Protection of U.S. nationals during revolt at Montevideo, Uruguay 1858
- Paraguay Expedition 1858-1859
- Peiho, China 1859
- Shanghai, China 1859
- Suppression of John Brown’s Raid, Harper’s Valley, Virginia 1859
- Under the command of Army LtCol Robert E. Lee & Lt. J.E.B. Stuart
- Assaulted the occupied Federal Arsenal at Harper’s Valley
- Protection of U.S. nationals in Kisembo, Portuguese West Africa 1860
- Protection of U.S. nationals at Bay of Panama (Colombia) 1860
- War between the States (Civil War) 1861-1865
- First Battle of Manassas
- Amphibious assault on Fort Sumter
- Amphibious Assault on Fort Fisher
- Amphibious assault on New Orleans
- Battle of Shimonoseki (Japan) 1863
- Protection of U.S. nationals during revolt Panama 1865
- Punitive raid in defense of U.S. Consul New Chwang, China 1866
- Punitive raid at Taka, Formosa 1867
- Osaka, Japan 1868
- Montevideo, Uruguay 1868
- Yokohama, Japan 1868
- Capture of the pirate steamer Forward, Rio Tecapan, Mexico 1868
- Battle of Sinmiyangyo - punitive raid, Korea 1871
- Capture of Choji and Deokjin Garrisons, on Ganghwa (Han River)
- Capture of Kwangsong Citadel
- Panama 1873
- Protection of U.S. nationals Honolulu, Hawaii 1874
- Protection of U.S. nationals during war & rioting Alexandria, Egypt 1882
- Panama 1885
- Seoul, Korea 1888
- Apia, Samoa 1889
- Protected U.S. nationals during revolt Honolulu, Hawaii 1889
- Protection of U.S. consul and nationals Buenos Aires, Argentina 1890
- Protection of U.S. consul and nationals Valparaiso, Chile 1891
- The Baltimore Affair Valparaiso, Chile 1891
- Suppression of seal poachers Arctic Ocean 1891
- Protection of U.S. nationals Novassa Island, East Indies 1891
- Landing ostensibly to protect U.S. nationals Honolulu, Hawaii 1893
- Protection of U.S. nationals Seoul, Korea 1894-1896
- Restoration of civil order at Bluefields, Nicaragua 1894
- Protection of U.S. & foreign nationals at Chefoo & Taku, China 1895
- Panama 1895
- Protection of U.S. nationals at Corinto, Nicaragua 1896
- Spanish-American War 1898
- Sinking of the Maine
- Maine’s Captain rescued by a Marine
- Capture of Cavite Naval Stations, Phillippines
- Raid on Fisher’s Point, Cuba
- Caimanera Raid
- Manzanillo Raid
- Amphibious assault at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
- Marines seize first advanced base on foreign soil in war
- Battle of Cuzco Well
- Battle of Cienfuegos
- Capture of Cape San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Capture of Guanica, Puerto Rico
- Amphibious assault at Fajardo, Puerto Rico
- Sinking of the Maine
- Defense of U.S. Mission and Legation at Tienstin & Peking, China 1898-1899
- Philippine Insurrection 1898-1902
- Battle with insurgents at Novaleta
- Storming of Sohoton Cliffs
- March across Samar
- Protection of U.S. nationals at Greytown & Bluefields, Nicaragua 1899
- Samoa Campaign - Samoan Civil War 1899
- Boxer Rebellion 1900
- Defense of the International Legations at Peking
- Peking Relief Expedition
- Capture of the Taku Forts along the Hai River
- Battle of the Hsiku Arsenal
- Battle of Peking
- Protection of the trans-isthmian railway Panama 1901
- Defense of Panama Canal during Panamanian Revolt 1902
- Protected U.S. Consul during revolt Puerto Cortez, Honduras 1903
- Protection of U.S. nationals Santo Domingo 1903
- Protected U.S. Consul during Muslim revolt Beirut, Syria 1903
- Panamanian Independence from Colombia 1903-1914
- Diplomatic Mission to Abyssinia 1903-1904
- Puerto Playa, Santo Domingo 1904
- Protection of U.S. Consul and nationals Tangier, Morocco 1904
- Protected U.S. Legation during Russo-Japanese War Seoul, Korea 1904-1905
- Restored civil order during Cuban Pacification Campaign 1906-1909
- Protected U.S. nationals during war with Nicaragua Puerto Cortez, Honduras 1907
- Corinto, Nicaragua 1910
- Bluefields, Nicaragua 1910
- Moro War 1911
- Protected U.S. nationals during civil war Honduras 1911
- Protection of U.S. nations during 1911 Revolt Shanghai, China 1911-1914
- Cuban Electoral Disorders 1912
- Amphibious landing at El Cuero
- First Nicaraguan Campaign 1912-1913
- Storming of Coyotepe Hill
- Protected U.S. consul during revolt Hankow, China 1912
- Supervised elections Panama 1912
- Protected U.S. nationals during revolt Shanghai, China 1912
- Protection of U.S. nationals China 1912-1941
- Kuomintang rebellion and Japanese invasion created need for general U.S. presence to protect nationals and interests there
- Shanghai, China 1913
- Evacuation of Estero Ciaris and Yaqui Valley, Mexico 1913
- Port-au-Prince, Haiti 1914
- Mexico Campaign - Mexican Revolution, 1914
- Amphibious assault at Vera Cruz
- First employment of Marine Artillery
- Haitian Campaign, 1915-1934
- Attack on Fort Dipitie
- Attack on Fort Riviere
- Dominican Campaign, 1915-1934
- Battle of San Francisco de Macoris
- Battle of Guayacanas
- Cuban Electoral Disorders 1917
- World War I 1917-1918
- Battle of Belleau Wood “Retreat? Hell, we just got here!”
- Renamed “Bois de la Brigade de Marine” - The Woods of the Marine Brigade
- First large scale US attack - broke German defense lines
- Nicknamed “Teufelshunde” by the Germans - Devil Dogs
- Battle of Blanc Mont Ridge
- Captured Saint Etienne-a-Arnes
- Breached the Hindenberg Line, capturing the Freya Stellung
- Captured the SMS Kormoran, Agana Harbor, Guam
- Battle of Belleau Wood “Retreat? Hell, we just got here!”
- Cuban Occupation 1917-1922
- Siberian Expedition - Russian Civil War - AEF Siberia 1918-1922
- Landings at Murmansk
- Landings at Vladivostok
- Protection of U.S. Consul during Greek occupation of Constantinople, Turkey 1919
- Panama 1921
- Nicaragua 1922
- Taku & Shanghai, China 1922
- Canton, China 1924
- Honduras 1924
- Tientsin, China 1924-1925
- Shanghai, China 1925
- Honduras, 1925
- Second Nicaraguan Campaign 1927-1933
- Railway Battle at El Sauce
- First successful medevac flight from besieged garrison
- First use of dive bombing in support of ground forces
- Amphibious landing to protect U.S. Consul at Foochow, China 1934
- Occupation of Greenland 1941
- Occupation of Iceland 1941-1942
- World War II 1941-1945
- Defense of Pearl Harbor
- Evacuation of Marine forces in Shanghai to Olangapo, Phillippines
- Surrender of Camp Holcombe, Chinwangtao, China
- Surrender of Marine detachments at Tientsin and Peiping, China
- Defense of the Phillippines
- Defense of Bataan
- Defense of Corregidor
- Defense of Wake Island
- Battle of Midway
- Guadalcanal Campaign
- Raid on Makin Island
- Submarine insertion of Marine Raiders
- Central Solomons Campaign
- Bougainville and the Northern Solomons
- The Campaign on New Britain
- The Battle for Tarawa
- The Marshalls: Increasing the Tempo
- Saipan: The Beginning of the End
- The Seizure of Tinian
- The Recapture of Guam
- The Assault on Peleliu
- Iwo Jima: Amphibious Epic
- “Where uncommon valor was a common virtue”
- Battle for the Turkey Knob
- Assault on Hill 382
- The Meat Grinder
- Flag raised over Mount Suribachi
- THE FINAL CAMPAIGN: Marines in the Victory on Okinawa
- SECURING THE SURRENDER: Marines in the Occupation of Japan
- OSS Operations in Europe
- Operation Torch: Landed at Arzeu, French Morocco took French ships as prizes. Captured old Spanish fortress at the northern tip of Oran harbor.
- Seized the airport at Safi, French Morocco, on November 10, and celebrated the 167th Birthday of the Marine Corps there.
- Operation Dragoon - Invasion of Southern France Landings at the islands of Pomegues, Chateau d’If, and Ratonneau in the Bay of Marseilles to capture 700 German defenders
- Occupation of North China 1945-1949
- Skirmishes with Chinese Communist Forces at Tientsin, Tangku, Anping, and Hsin Ho
- “Battle” of Alcatraz 1946
- Palestinian Security & Observation Details 1948
- Korean War 1950-1953
- First Battle of the Naktong Bulge
- Amphibious landing at Inchon
- Liberation of Seoul
- Chosin Defensive and Breakout
- Operation Ripper
- Defense of Phaseline Jamestown
- Battle for the Nevada Cities Outposts
- Evacuation of Alexandria, Egypt 1956
- Lebanon Crisis - Operation Blue Bat 1958
- Congo U.N. Mission Support 1960
- Thailand 1962
- Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
- Vietnam War 1962-1973
- Dominican Peacekeeping 1965-1966
- Evacuation of Cypress during Turkish Invasion 1974
- Evacuation of Pnomh Penh 1975
- Evacuation of Saigon - The last to leave 1975
- Mayaguez Operation 1975
- Iranian Rescue Mission 1980
- PLO Evacuation from Beirut 1982
- Confrontation with Colonel Landsberg’s column of armor
- “You will not pass through this position.”
- Hizbollah car bomb attack on Marine Compound at Beirut Airport 1983
- Confrontation with Colonel Landsberg’s column of armor
- Invasion of Grenada - Operation Urgent Fury 1983
- Amphibious landings at Grand Mal
- Heliborne assault of Pearl Airfield
- Assault on Grand Anse
- Captured Fort Frederick, Fort Matthew and Richmond Hill Prison
- Relieved besieged Navy Seals at Governor’s House
- “We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing. What the hell is going on?” General Vessey, US Army
- Persian Gulf Oil Well Campaign 1988
- Protection of U.S. assets in Panama 1988
- Panama Campaign - Operation Just Cause 1989
- Defense of Howard AFB
- Seized the Bridge of the Americas and the West bank of the canal
- Captured PDF bases at Arraijan, Vera Cruz, Vista Allegre, La Chorrera, and Vaca Monte.
- Evacuation of Monrovia 1990
- Evacuation of Mogadishu 1991
- “They told our perimeter guard to open up or we’ll blow you away and then they looked up and saw the Marines on the roof with these really big guns and they said in Somali, ‘Igaralli ahow,’ which means, ‘Excuse me, I didn’t mean it, my mistake.’”
- Karen Aguilar, U.S. Embassy, Mogadishu, Somalia, 1991
- “They told our perimeter guard to open up or we’ll blow you away and then they looked up and saw the Marines on the roof with these really big guns and they said in Somali, ‘Igaralli ahow,’ which means, ‘Excuse me, I didn’t mean it, my mistake.’”
- Desert Shield / Desert Storm 1990-1991
- Assault on Khafji
- Amphibious feint off Kuwait
- Ground attack into Kuwait to fix Iraqi forces in place
- Liberation of Kuwait City / Battle at Kuwait International Airport
- Typhoon relief operations Bangladesh 1991
- Kurdish Security Zone 1991 - 2003
- Iraq No-Fly Zone 1991-2003
- Bosnian Peacekeeping Operations 1991-Present
- Somalia Relief Operation 1992-1993
- NATO arms embargo in Yugoslavia 1993-1995
- Haitian Campaign 1994-1996
- Rwanda Evacuation 1994
- Evacuation of UN peacekeepers from Somalia 1995
- Persian Gulf Deployment 1995-1996
- Albanian Evacuation Mission 1997
- Sierra Leone Evacuation during coup d’etat 1997
- US Embassy bombing in Nairobi, Kenya 1998
- Taliban War in Afghanistan (Enduring Freedom ) 2001 -
- 15th and 26th Marine Expeditionary Units are first conventional forces in country
- Amphibious assault 400 miles from shore
- Seized the airport at Kandahar
- Cote d’Ivoire Evacuation during revolt 2002
- Occupation of Iraq (Iraqi Freedom) 2003 -
- Assault on Umm Qasr
- Capture of Ramallah oil fields
- The Battle for An Nasiriyah
- Battle at Diwaniya
- First Battle of Fallujah Operation Vigilant Resolve
- Second Battle of Fallujah Operation Phantom Fury
- Operations in Al Anbar Province
- Protect U.S. nationals Port-au-Prince, Haiti 2004
- Tsunami relief operations in Sumatra, Indonesia and Sri Lanka 2005
- Search & rescue operations and humanitarian relief along US Gulf Coast in response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
- Lebanon Evacuation 2006
