The SEALs however are surrounded and gunned down by Hummel's marines in a shower room after SEAL Commander Anderson ( Michael Biehn ) refuses to surrender ( the fight is provoked by Marine Captains Frye and Darrow, later revealed to be following Hummel only for the money instead of honor ), leaving only Mason and Goodspeed alive when they remained in the tunnels while the SEALs confronted the marines.

On the night of 20 April 1775, royal marines loaded fifteen half barrels of powder into the governor's wagon intent on transporting it down the Quarterpath Road to the James River to be loaded aboard the British ship.

With their hostage gone, the sailors and marines were forced to lay down their arms.

On 12 January 1930 the Royal New Zealand Navy flagship Dunedin brought marines to hunt down members of The Mau.

He also drew up contingency plans for an emergency deployment of the 82nd Airborne to Washington D. C. in the event of Nixon refusing to step down in the event of impeachment and usurping of the marines.

From 10: 00 to 12: 00 Major Kean and his marines cut down trees and moved vehicles to create an LZ in the embassy parking lot behind the Chancery building.

The next morning, using a ladder as a battering ram, the marines battered down the door and stormed the fire engine house.

The most ferocious battle to regain Corregidor occurred at Wheeler Point on the night of 18 February and early morning of 19 February, when D and F Companies, 2nd Battalion, 503rd PRCT, settled down for defensive positions near Battery Hearn and Cheney Trail, when at 22: 30 under a black, moonless night, 500 suicidal Japanese marines came out of the Battery Smith armory and charged the American and the Philippine positions.

These daily patrols, to be launched at irregular intervals by North American 0-47's, were specifically tasked to hunt for sub ¬ marines, while two other 0-47's were to be held on alert status ( at Hangar 1 ) at Albrook Field for anti-submarin reconnaissance missions that might be handed down from Caribbean Air Force headquarters.

He decided that the marines must be deploying around the meadow, with the one left to distract him.

Cutting short a holiday at Hong Kong, the aircraft carriers Lexington and Bennington steamed off into the South China Sea, accompanied by a swarm of destroyers, plus troopships loaded with marines.

The manual makes it clear that Phobos is considered by space marines to be the dullest assignment imaginable: " with no action for fifty million miles, your day consisted of suckin ' dust and watchin ' restricted flicks in the rec room.

Accompanied by William Harris the German marines marched around the island and returned with the twelve chiefs, the white settlers and the Gilbertese missionary.

Lieutenant King, who was sent with a detachment of marines and some convicts, to settle there, gives the most flattering portrayal of it.

Up to 500 marines are training in Mogadishu with their training expected to finish in December 2009.

The Spartans, however, with the assistance of a Persian army, began to drive this Athenian force into the sea ; seeing this, Thrasybulus landed his own force to temporarily relieve pressure on Alcibiades, and meanwhile ordered Theramenes to join up with Athenian land forces nearby and bring them to reinforce the sailors and marines on the beach.

The Stormtroopers operate with the Navy, and are fielded like marines separate from the army.

In 960 Nikephoros Phokas was sent with a fleet of 1, 000 dromons, 2, 000 chelandia, and 308 transports ( entire fleet was manned by 27, 000 oarsmen and marines ) carrying 50, 000 men to recover Crete from the Muslims After a difficult campaign and the 9-month siege of Chandax, Nikephoros successfully re-established Byzantine control over the entire island in 961.

The boats were armed with swivel guns loaded with grapeshot, the officers armed with swords and pistols, the marines with " Brown Bess " muskets, and the sailors with torches and axes ; they responded to the single cannon fired by the town's surprised defenders with a massive volley, neither side incurring any casualties.

The Union Army original plan was for the naval force, armed with revolvers and cutlasses, to attack in three waves with the marines providing covering fire, but instead, the assault went forward in a single unorganized mass.

Although several Union soldiers initially thought Confederate prisoners were responsible, an investigation opened by Terry concluded that unknown Union soldiers ( possibly drunken marines ) had entered the magazine with torches and ignited the powder.

A battalion usually contains 2 – 5 organic companies ( batteries in the artillery ), with a total of 500 to 1, 200 marines in the battalion.

The Devonport marines are still associated with the song which they generally sing at public displays.

On 31 March 2007, Waite offered to travel to Iran to negotiate with those holding British sailors and marines seized by Iran in disputed waters on 23 March 2007.

The British force sent to capture Fort Carillon ( held by just 3400 French regulars and marines with almost no militia or Indian support ) was the largest ever seen in America ( at that time ) 16, 200 British, American, and Iroquois troops under the command of the dull political General James Abercrombie ( called Mrs. Nabbycrombie by his troops and aunt aubbie by his officers ).

British authority was re-established in the Bay of Islands on 28 March 1845 with the arrival of troops from the 58th, 96th and 99th Regiments with marines and a Congreve rocket unit, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel William Hulme.

This boarding-bridge allowed the Roman navy to circumvent some of Carthage's naval skills by using their marines to board Carthaginian ships and fight in hand to hand combat.

The medal was " to bestowed upon such petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and marines as shall most distinguish themselves by their gallantry and other seamen-like qualities during the present war ".

Mulhall and Buddusky then brusquely take Meadows to the prison, execute the Navy paperwork, and after being released from their detail, they stride away angrily, berating the marines they have encountered at the prison – and about how hopefully their orders will come through when they get back to Norfolk.

They raised their naval strength from a mere 11 squadrons of 3, 000 marines to 20 squadrons of 52, 000 marines in a century's time.

For the second time in United States history, soldiers and marines relinquished their military medals.

Here, instead of landing near and taking the Japanese airfields against the bulk of the Japanese defenders, Halsey landed his invasion force of 14, 000 marines in Empress Augusta Bay, about halfway up the west coast of Bouganville and had the Seabees clear and build their own airfield.

It is probable that the relatively small number of marines that the Allies had disembarked for the battle made them overconfident, encouraging the Persians to leave the safety of their camp.

Two marines lifted the keg to the deck, standing guard while a file of cooks from the petty officers ' messes held out their jugs.

*: The Colombian Army operates the TAR-21 for their special forces, in the army, marines and in the Colombian national police.

The marines were confused by this new realization, as well as by their failure to achieve a swift victory and by the ongoing resistance.

" " There was a lot written about my sexuality, and the press was pretty darn cruel ," the actor says, but what " moviegoers wanted to hold in their hearts were the boy-next-door marines, cowboys and swoon-bait sweethearts I portrayed.

The increased number of oarsmen also required a broader hull, which on the one hand reduced the ships ' speed, but offered several advantages: larger vessels could be strengthened to better withstand ramming, while the wider hull increased their carrying capacity, allowing more marines and eventually catapults, to be carried along.

Seven remained, but their position became untenable when some 800 Dutch marines landed about a mile away.

Dietz, a former United States Navy Hospital Corpsman, incorporated elements of what he fondly called " The Green Machine " into his work ; despite being in the 26th century, the marines of The Flood are very similar to their modern counterparts.

Examples include Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's regime after the American intervention in 1953, the regimes of the Somozas, Duvaliers and Trujillo ( their countries were occupied by US marines 1912-33, 1915 – 34 and 1916 – 24 ), and Batista's regime in Cuba.

Ten British sailors and marines are buried on the islands including two sailors from HMS Albatross who were killed in March 1886 when their gun exploded and a young sailor, Alex Wood, from HMS Albion, who died in 1903.

The marines achieved their objective but the militia turned back when British shot overturned the leading boat, drowning Major Daniel Littlefield and two of his men.

One eighth was divided among the junior warrant and petty officers, their mates, sergeants of marines, captain's clerk, surgeon's mates, and midshipmen.

With their carriers lying nine miles offshore, the marines were landed far more quickly than could have been achieved using landing craft, and without the need to get their boots wet.