Joseph Henry Pendleton
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Major General Joseph Henry Pendleton was a United States Marine Corps general for whom Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton is named. Pendleton served in the Marine Corps for over 40 years.
Pendleton in 1917
USMC Officers at Marine Barracks, Washington D.C. in 1896. Then First Lieutenant Pendleton is on the far right.
The United States occupation of Nicaragua from August 4, 1912, to January 2, 1933, was part of the Banana Wars, when the U.S. military invaded various Latin American countries from 1898 to 1934. The f
Joseph Henry Pendleton
…was detached on temporary foreign shore service from August 23, 1912, until December 16, 1912. This foreign service covered the period of the 1912 operations in Nicaragua. Colonel Pendleton was in command of the Marines during this campaign in the skirmishes at Masaya and Chichigalpa, and the capture of…
United States Marines with the captured flag of Augusto C. Sandino in 1932
The USS Denver ship's landing force under Lt. A. Reed rests beside the Corinto, Nicaragua railroad line, 1912.
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