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Topic: Marines and Trenton
[QUOTE=SniperWannabee;25739]Birthday of the Marine Corps.
November 10, 1775(congress raises 2 battalions of Marines.) ."Serving with General George Washington. April 1776, 2Lt. John Fitzpatrick, the first Marine to be killed in combat. Major Samuel Nicholas/300 Marines fought at the battle of Trenton." This is an error. No Marnes fought at the Battle of Trenton on 26 December 1776. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_...le_of_Trenton: Continental Army: Commander-in-Chief Gen. George Washington Commander-in-Chief's Guard Capt. Caleb Gibbs Washington's aides-de-camp Lt. Tench Tilghman, Lt. Col. Richard Cary, Lt. Col. Samuel Blachley Webb Adjutant General Col. Joseph Reed Quartermaster General Col. Stephen Moylan Commissary General Lt. Col. Joseph Trumbull Paymaster General Col. William Palfrey Muster Master General Col. Gunning Bedford Director of the General Hospital Dr. John Morgan Chief Engineer Col. Rufus Putnam Greene's Division Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene Stephen's Brigade Brig. Gen. Adam Stephen 4th Virginia Regiment Lt. Col. Robert Lawson 5th Virginia Regiment Col. Charles Scott 6th Virginia Regiment Col. Mordecai Buckner Stirling's Brigade 1st Virginia Regiment Capt. John Fleming 1st Delaware Regiment Col. John Haslet 3rd Virginia Regiment Col. George Weedon 1st Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment Maj. Ennion Williams Mercer's Brigade Brig. Gen. Hugh Mercer 20th Connecticut Regiment Col. John Durkee 1st Maryland Regiment Lt. Col. Francis Ware 5th Massachusetts Regiment Maj. Ezra Putnam Bradley's Battalion, Connecticut State Troops Capt. Benjamin Mills Maryland Rifle Battalion Volunteers Capt. David Harris Fermoy's Brigade Brig. Gen. Matthias Alexis Roche de Fermoy 1st Pennsylvania Regiment Col. Edward Hand German Continentals Col. Nicholas Haussegger Sullivan's Division Maj. Gen. John Sullivan Glover's Brigade Col. John Glover 14th (Marblehead) Regiment Maj. William R. Lee 3rd Massachusetts Regiment Col. William Shepard 19th Connecticut Regiment Col. Charles Webb 23rd Continental Regiment Col. John Bailey 26th Continental Regiment Col. Loammi Baldwin Sargent's Brigade Col. Paul Dudley Sargent 16th Continental Regiment Capt. James Perry Ward's Regiment Connecticut Continentals Col. Andrew Ward 6th Battalion Connecticut State Troops Col. John Chester 13th Continental Regiment Lt. Col. Ebenezer Clap 1st Regiment MacDougall's New York Continentals Capt. John Johnson St. Clair's Brigade Brig. Gen. Arthur St. Clair 5th Continental Regiment Col. John Stark 8th Continental Regiment Col. Enoch Poor 2nd Continental Regiment Col. Israel Gilman Artillery Col. Henry Knox 418 estimated; 16 guns Philadelphia Troop of Light Horse |
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