Smedley Butler
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Major General Smedley Darlington Butler was a United States Marine Corps officer and, later, an anti-war advocate. During his 34-year military career, he fought in the Philippine–American War, the Box
Butler in c. 1929
Second Lieutenant Smedley Butler in uniform c. 1898
Marine Officers at Veracruz, 1914. Front row, left to right: Wendell C. Neville; John A. Lejeune; Littleton W. T. Waller, Commanding; Smedley Butler.
Butler (far right) with other Marines in Vera Cruz, Mexico, 1914. From left to right: Sgt. Maj. John H. Quick, Maj. Gen. Wendell Cushing Neville, Col. John Archer Lejeune.
Banana Wars
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The Banana Wars were a series of conflicts that consisted of military occupation, police action, and intervention by the United States in Central America and the Caribbean between the end of the Spani
Smedley Butler
…advocate. During his 34-year military career, he fought in the Philippine–American War, the Boxer Rebellion, the Mexican Revolution, World War I, and the Banana Wars. At the time of his death, Butler was the most decorated Marine in U.S. military history. By the end of his career, Butler had received sixteen medals…
US Marines with the captured flag of Augusto César Sandino in Nicaragua in 1932
United States Marines with a Haitian guide patrolling the jungle in 1915 during the Battle of Fort Dipitie
William Allen Rogers cartoon depicting Theodore Roosevelt's Big Stick ideology
American warships off Veracruz in 1914