US Marine Corps Base - Yearbook (Quantico, VA)

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governmenT. The Trouble sTreTched inTo The Tol- lowing year and several armed clashes occurred beTween Marines and The Californians. On Jan- uary 2 There was a sharp clash near SanTa Clara wiTh casualTies on boTh sides. ln The meanTime Trouble was brewing wiTh Mexico: Trouble Thaf flared inTo war. Cn SepTember I3, I847, Marines sTormed The ancienT TorTress of ChapulTepec. They scaled The walls in The Tace of murderous Tire and Tools The TorTress wiTh The bayoneT and Their clubbed musl4eTs. Thaf baTTle will never be TorgoTTen by The Marines Tor Their famed hymn begins wiTh The words, From The l-lalls oT MonTe- Zuma. AfTer The Mexican War There was no lull in The acTiviTies oT The Marines. They accompanied Commodore Perry on his expediTion To Japan in l853. They ToughT and died againsT The Chi- nese piraTes, and on The oTher side oT The world Their comrades raced To revolT-ridden MonTe- video To proTecT American lives and properTy. Indians menaced The seTTlemenT in SeaTTle, in The WashingTon TerriTory, and sTurdy Marines were landed from gunboaTs To suppress The uprising. There followed more disTurbances in China, The Fiji Islands, Africa, Colombia, and The plug- ugly rioTs in WashingTon. There was also The AIM Here, Marines are shown hoisTing our flag over a capfured forfress af Derne, Tripoli, April 27, I805. The firsf Time The Sfars and Sfripes eve floafed over a forTress of The Old World. incidenT aT l-larpers Ferry in The Tall oT I859 when an Army officer, RoberT E. Lee, hurriedly Took charge of a plaToon of Marines and, aTTer a brief skirmish, capTured John Brown. These many aT- Tairs lcepT The Marines on The iump unTil The Tall of ForT SumTer aT The opening of The War Be- Tween The STaTes. During The long and bloody Trairicidal war The hilT of Lieufenanf Presley N. O'Bannons' sword. if is This sword Thaf was The inspiraTion for d designing presenf day Marine Corps Officers' swor s.

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They wheeled naval guns inTo posiTion and ToughT These guns unTil Their leaders were eiTher killed or capTured. They Then ToughT a brillianT rear guard acTion all The way To The ciTy, slowing The English advance and inTlicTing many casualTies. ThroughouT The harrowing nighT oT AugusT 25, I8I4, The ciTy Tlamed under The BriTish Torches. The Marine CommandanT's QuarTers alone oT The oTTicial buildings was spared, due To The TacT ThaT iT was used as The invaders' headguarTers. WiTh The desTrucTion oT The CapiTal compleTe The BriTish Tlung Themselves againsT ForT Mc- l-lenry, barring Their rouTe To BalTimore. Mc- T-lenry was garrisoned by boTh soldiers and Ma- rines. From an enemy ship bombarding The ForT Francis ScoTT Key waTched wiTh sTraining eyes Through The bombs bursTing in air Tor a glimpse oT The Tlag ThaT would prove ThaT The ForT sTill held, and upon seeing iT in The dawn's early lighT he was moved To wriTe The sTirring words ThaT were desTined To become The NaTional An- Them. The Marines were commended Tor Their parT in The ForT's deTense by The SecreTary oT War. The BriTish, blocked in This aTTempT by The de- Tenses oT Mcl-lenry, Turned back and re-embarked To sail SouTh againsT New Grleans. There, among The moTley array oT deTenders oT The ciTy gaTh- ered by Jackson, was a deTachmenT oT Marines, and in The ensuing baTTle, which resulTed so dis- asTrously Tor The BriTish, They acguiTTed Them- selves wiTh The courage ThaT was becoming a Trademark oT The Corps. The BriTish casualTies in This TuTile baTTle were exTremely heavy. The baTTle iTselT was an unnecessary one, inasmuch as The War was already concluded aT The Time iT was ToughT. Many smaller encounTers conTinued To Take place aT sea beTore The news oT The cessaTion oT The war could reach The scaTTered ships. In The dozen years Tollowing The War oT I8I2 Marines were called upon To Take parT in sev- eral expediTions, Trom ArgenTine To Samoa, and Trom PuerTo Rico To ATrica. ln T842 They were called To quell an uprising among The inmaTes oT The MassachuseTTs STaTe Prison. The mosT onerous Task which The Marines had To perTorm during This period was a puniTive ex- pediTion againsT The Island oT Quallah BaToo, SumaTra, in I832. This was Tollowed by a long series oT scaTTered engagemenTs wiTh The lndians in Florida. ln I846 a group oT CaliTornians, mosTly Mexi- cans, opposed The seTTlemenT policies oT The LieuTenanT Presley N. O'Bannon. Marine Corps hero of Derne, Tripoli.

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ThaT nearly Tore The naTion asunder, Marines served boTh on land and on sea. Only a scanT TwenTy of The enfire Marine personnel casT Their loT wiTh The Confederacy, The remaincer sfayed wiTh The Union. So ouTsTanding was The service of The Marines ThaT The Soufh, in admirafion, paTTerned Their own Confederafe Marine Corps afTer iTs NorThern conTemporary. Marines of I8l0. A sTrong Napoleonic influence is reflecfed in The headgear worn by officers and The TighT-fiTTing Trousers worn by all ranks. All ranks wore Their hair powdered and cued and leafher sfocks To hold chins erecf had been in vogue aT leasT a dozen years. WiTh anoTher war Tucked under Their belT, The Marines anTicipaTed a period of relaxaTion, buf This was noT To be. On Independence Day, l866, a greaT fire consumed mosT of PorTland, Maine, and Marines spenT a week proTecTing The helpless ciTy from looTers. There Then occurred rioTs in Philadelphia which had To be surpressed, a piraTe sTronghold in Mexico To be reduced, more rioTs in Brooklyn, a puniTive expediTion in Korea, land- ing parTies To be senT ashore in Colombia, l-lawaii, Panama and oTher places. ln I877, a labor rioT assumed serious proporTions, paralyzed commerce in nine sTaTes and required The mus- Tering of all available Marines To resTore order. ln T882 Marines were senT ashore aT Alexan- dria, Egypf, To assisT in quelling an ugly uprising, and Three years laTer a periodic insurrecTion called Them To Panama once more. In T889 Trouble aT Samoa found The Americans and The Brifish lined up againsT The Germans. War was imminenT, wiTh The gunboafs of all Three naTions ready for acTion. Then a Terrific Tropical sTorm bursT suddenly, wrecking all buT one of The belligerenT ships. The war was forgoTTen as The survivors were drawn Togefher by The common bond of sorrow for Their losT comrades. Some four hundred lives were losT, many of Them Marines. ln T898 The Maine was olown up in l-lavana l-larbor. IT was PrivaTe William Anfhony of The Marines who esTablished an all-Time record for undersTaTemenT when he calmly saluTeol CapTain Sigsbee, U. S. N., and said quieTly, almosT apol- Marines in The Mexican War period, Navy Blue uniforms wifh sky blue Trousers were worn by officers during This period H846-481, when They were aTTired in Their full regalia, and enlisfed men wore a uniform of somewhaf similar shade. Crimson sashes sTill encircled Their waisfs on dress occasions and even a privaTe flefTi wore ornamenfal epauleTTe wifh fringe resembling bullion. Jig