Today in History
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Today in History |
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November 10, 1775 |
Even prior to the founding of the United States, a naval unit known as the Continental Marines was founded and fought in the American Revolutionary War. A resolution of the Second Continental Congress on November 10, 1775, sought to raise two battalions of naval infantry. While administratively a part of the US Navy, the Marine Corps is a separate branch of the military specializing in amphibious warfare. One of its most celebrated actions was in the First Barbary War against pirates when a small group of Marines led a group of mercenaries to capture Tripoli, now immortalized in the Marine Battle Hymn.
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