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What date was the Marine Corps establish? By whom? Where?
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10 Nov 1775, Capt Samuel Nicholas, Tun Tavern in Philadelphia
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What year did the first Marine landing take place? During which war? Where? What was special about the Marines’ uniform?
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1776, Revolutionary War, New Providence Island in the Bahamas, had a stiff leather stock around the neck “Leatherneck”
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What happened in 1805?
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Marines stormed Barbary pirates’ stronghold at Burma on the “Shores of Tripoli” and raised the Stars and Stripes for the first time in the Eastern Hemisphere
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