The history of the United States Marine Corps begins with the founding of the Continental Marines on 10 November 1775 to conduct ship-to-ship fighting, provide shipboard security and discipline enforc
U.S. Marines with the 1st Marine Division display Japanese flag captured during the Battle of Cape Gloucester.
A portrait of Major Samuel Nicholas, the first Commandant of the Marine Corps, 1775
Continental Marines land at New Providence during the Battle of Nassau
A sketch of Tun Tavern during the Revolutionary War
First Barbary War
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The First Barbary War, also known as the Tripolitan War and the Barbary Coast War, was a conflict during the 1801–1815 Barbary Wars, in which the United States fought against Ottoman Tripolitania. Tri
History of the United States Marine Corps
…the Quasi-War with France, Congress created the United States Navy and the Marine Corps. The Marines' most famous action of this period occurred in the First Barbary War (1801–1805) against the Barbary pirates. In the Mexican–American War (1846–1848), the Marines made their famed assault on Chapultepec Palace, which…
USS Enterprise fighting the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli by William Bainbridge Hoff, 1878
Captain William Bainbridge paying tribute to the Dey of Algiers, 1800
Portrait of Yusuf Karamanli
An artist's depiction of the Philadelphia aground off Tripoli, in October 1803