In recent times, it has become customary to invite units from France's allies to the parade ; in 2004 during the centenary of the Entente Cordiale, British troops ( the band of the Royal Marines, the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, Grenadier Guards and King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery ) led the Bastille Day parade in Paris for the first time, with the Red Arrows flying overhead.

In addition to his cannon fire, Hood called up his Marines and ordered them to fire volleys of musket shot at the deck of the French ship, driving the crew out of sight but still failing to secure the surrender from Captain Trullet.

In Herbert's report to the Admiralty, he stated he feared the survivors from the U-boat's crew would board the freighter and scuttle her, so he ordered the Royal Marines on his ship to shoot the survivors.

More dramatically, in July 1958, he sent 15, 000 Marines and soldiers to Lebanon as part of Operation Blue Bat, a non-combat peace-keeping mission to stabilize the pro-Western government and to prevent a radical revolution from sweeping over that country.

When the US Marines landed on the island, they discovered a large amount of documents, which included agreements between the Soviet Government, and the New Jewel Movement, recorded minutes of the Committee meetings, and reports from the Grenadian embassy in Moscow.

Marines from the drive off American Indian attackers after all day battle with settlers.

* 1893 – U. S. Marines land in Honolulu, Hawaii from the to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.

Stuart volunteered to be aide-de-camp to Col. Robert E. Lee and accompanied Lee with a company of U. S. Marines from the Washington Navy Yard and four companies of Maryland militia.

Following graduation in June 1985, he was assigned to command the 3rd Battalion, 9th Marines, 1st Marine Division, at Camp Pendleton, California, from July 1985 to July 1987.

* 1946 – In San Francisco Bay, U. S. Marines from the nearby Treasure Island Naval Base stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz federal prison.

In consequence my Government desires that the Government of the United States guarantee with its forces security for the property of American Citizens in Nicaragua and that it extend its protection to all the inhabitants of the Republic. United States Marines occupied Nicaragua from 1912 to 1933, except for a nine-month period beginning in 1925.

A “ Letter from an Officer of Marines at New South Wales, 16 November 1788 ”, published in the London newspaper, The World, 15 May 1789, reported the glowing description of the island and its prospects by Philip Gidley King, but also drew attention to the fatal defect of the lack of a safe port: “ The said Island lies near Port Jackson, and is nearly as large as the Isle of Wight.

* 1943 – World War II: Battle of Tarawa ( Operation Galvanic ) begins – United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns.

* 1965 – Vietnam War: Just miles from Da Nang, United States Marines repel an intense attack by wave after wave of Viet Cong forces, killing 56 guerrillas.

27, 000 personnel, including 15, 000 Marines, contingents from the Navy, Army and Air Force, and their 22, 000 family members are stationed in Okinawa.

However, whilst the New South Wales Police Force was established in 1862, it was made up from a large number of policing and military units operating within the then Colony of New South Wales and traces its links back to the Royal Marines.

A group of rogue Force Recon Marines led by disenchanted Brigadier General Frank Hummel ( Ed Harris ) seize a stockpile of deadly VX gas – armed rockets from a heavily guarded military bunker, reluctantly leaving one of their men to die in the process, when a bead of the gas falls and breaks.

Royal Marines Commandos were sent by air from England via Nairobi and 40 Commando came ashore from the aircraft carrier HMS Bulwark.

In August, 1816, seven hundred former Black slaves from the US South, who had escaped to the British lines during the War of 1812 and been recruited into the Royal Marines, were rewarded for their service to the British Crown during the war by being granted land on Trinidad and Tobago.

One team of Marines reported that they had destroyed a large one-story masonry type building with one round from.

U. S. Marines jump from a V-22 Osprey, the first production tiltrotor aircraft

* August 4 – United States occupation of Nicaragua: U. S. Marines land from the USS Annapolis in Nicaragua to support the conservative government at its request.

* November 20 – WWII: Battle of Tarawa: United States Marines land on Tarawa and Makin atolls in the Gilbert Islands and take heavy fire from Japanese shore guns.

Krulak's staff assignments included: operations officer, 2nd Battalion 9th Marines ( 1977 – 1978 ); chief of the Combat Arms Monitor Section at Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. ( 1978 – 1979 ); executive assistant to the Director of Personnel Management, Headquarters Marine Corps ( 1979 – 1981 ); Plans Office, Fleet Marine Forces Pacific, Camp H. M. Smith, Hawaii ( 1982 – 1983 ); executive officer, 3rd Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade ; assistant chief of staff, maritime pre-positioning ships, 1st MEB ; assistant chief of staff for operations, 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade ; and the military assistant to the assistant secretary of defense for command, control, communications and intelligence, Office of the Secretary of Defense.

LCPL Chad Codwell of Charlie Company 1st Battalion 5th Marines carries a skateboard during military exercise Urban Warrior ' 99.

** Hermann Göring is captured by the United States Army. Marines of 1st Marine Division Battle of Okinawa | fighting on Okinawa, May 1945.

The assault on the Iraqi positions on the Al Faw peninsula consisted of a DPV mounted SEAL force at the refinery and port with a larger force of US Marines from the 5th Regimental Combat Team of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force attacking Iraqi positions farther north in the Rumaila oil fields.

The Brigade is made up of 30 ( IX ) Commando, 40 Commando ( home base: Taunton ), 42 Commando ( Bickleigh, South Hams, Plymouth ) and 45 Commando ( Arbroath, Scotland ), the Commando Logistic Regiment, 539 Assault Squadron Royal Marines, 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery, 24 Commando Regiment Royal Engineers and 1st battalion, The Rifles.

After training, the Marines from the first Amphibian Tractor School were sent to flesh out the 1st Amphibian Tractor Battalion, which has served with distinction since.

Also appearing as themselves are 1st Lt. Harold Schrier, who led the flag-raising patrol on Iwo Jima, Col. David M. Shoup, later Commandant of the Marine Corps and recipient of the Medal of Honor at Tarawa, and Lt. Col. Henry P. " Jim " Crowe, commander of the 2nd Battalion 8th Marines at Tarawa, where he earned the U. S. Navy Cross.

Following the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, Diamond shipped out to Guadalcanal with Company H, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division, arriving at the beaches August 7, 1942.

After a short leave, he was given command of 1st Battalion, 7th Marines ( known as 1 / 7 ) of the 1st Marine Division, stationed at New River, North Carolina, the new Marine amphibious base which would soon be renamed for the 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps, John A. Lejeune, MCB Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

Puller commanded 1st Battalion, 7th Marines ( 1 / 7 ), the only American unit defending the airfield against a regiment-strength Japanese force.

Colonel Puller would lead the 1st Marines into the protracted battle on Peleliu, one of the bloodiest battles in Marine Corps history during September and October 1944, action where he was awarded his first Legion of Merit.

" For example, a Marine would consider himself to be a member of the 12th Marines or the 1st Marine Regiment.

While the Marines do not wear unit patches on their uniforms, the units of the 2d BCT involved are authorized to now wear any of the following combat patches: the 2nd Infantry Division patch, the 1st Marine Division unit patch or the 2nd Marine Division unit patch.

In a misty drizzle, U. S. Marines of the 1st Marine Division and soldiers of the 1st ARVN Division and Marine Corps cleared the city street by street and house by house, a deadly and destructive form of urban combat that the U. S. military had not engaged in since the Battle of Seoul during the Korean War, and for which neither side were trained.

His first assignment was command of a rifle platoon with 3rd Battalion 1st Marines, based at Camp Pendleton.

* 1st Battalion 4th Marines (), a unit in the United States Marine Corps

By the end of 1917 four divisions were deployed in a large training area near Verdun: the 1st Division, a regular army formation ; the 26th Division, a National Guard formation ; the 2nd Division, a combined formation of regular troops and United States Marines ; and the 42nd " Rainbow " Division, a National Guard formation consisting of units from nearly every state in the United States.

1st Battalion / 4th Marines and 3rd Battalion / 4th Marines were at Corregidor