New South Wales Marine Corps
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The New South Wales Marine Corps was a battalion-sized unit of the British Marine Forces created to guard convicts aboard the First Fleet to Australia, and to preserve "subordination and regularity" i
c. 1780 portrait of a British marine lieutenant
The First Fleet arriving at Botany Bay on 18 January 1788
Watkin Tench, a captain-lieutenant in the corps
Corps of Colonial Marines
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The Corps of Colonial Marines were two different Royal Marine units raised from former black slaves for service in the Americas at the behest of Alexander Cochrane. The units were created at two separ
New South Wales Marine Corps
…for the creation of ad hoc units for overseas service under the aegis of the Royal Marines. One example, from the Americas and the War of 1812, was the Corps of Colonial Marines, recruited from freed slaves. List of officers of the New South Wales Marine Corps…
A British Colonial Marine in a light coloured fatigue uniform, worn for performing ordinary duties and a common sight on Tangier Island in Chesapeake Bay but on the battlefield, the red coat of the service uniform would have been worn
Alexander Cochrane, responsible for raising the Corps of Colonial Marines