US Marine Corps Base - Yearbook (Quantico, VA)

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JTITJ for? 0 Qowanfico Some TorTy miles down The PoTomac Trom WashingTon lies The liTTle village OT QuanTico and The Marine Corps Base. OuTwardly iT is a quieT, almosT somnolenT hamleT, buT iTs TurbulenT hisTOry makes iT a TiTTing home Tor The Soldiers OT The Sea. AlThough U. S. Marines have oc- cupied QuanTico Tor less Than a quarTer-cenTury, iT has, since The dawn OT American hisTory, been uTilized as an expediTionary base, whence lean, liThe war canoes scurried OuT To halT hosTile incursion. ldenTiTy OT The TirsT whiTe person To visiT The Virginian shores is buried wiTh his bones. Some evidence exisTs To indicaTe +haT Spanish explorers sailed up The PoTomac someTime beTween l565 and l57O, and poked Their way inTo The reaches OT QuanTico Creek and Occoquan. There is also a legend ThaT The English landed an exploraTion parTy aT QuanTico in l585. BuT The TirsT OT whom we have acTual prooT is The re- doubTable and ubiquiTious CapTain John SmiTh. ln June, loO7, wiTh a Three-Ton barge carrying TourTeen genTlemen mariners, CapTain SmiTh enTered The mouTh OT The PaTa- womek, and breasTed The currenT. According To his own repOrT, They worked Their way abOuT ThirTy miles up The river when They were ambushed by Indians. BuT Thunder- ing Tirearms soon rOuTed The warriors, and hOsTiliTy di- minished as The parTy progressed. SmiTh conTinued nos- ing inTo Occoquan Creek, searching Tor mines repuTed T241 To be There. l-le also skeTched a very accuraTe map OT The counTry. ThroughouT Colonial days QuanTico busTled wiTh ac- TiviTy, TiTTing OuT privaTeers To prey on French and Spanish shipping. ln The days preceeding The American RevOluTion, BrenTs Village and adiacenT seTTlemenTs Tlourishecl. To- bacco was The main medium OT exchange, and QuanTico Creek was sTudded wiTh barges working Their way To The PoTomac. The smouldering embers OT RevolT Tlamed, and The Colonies prepared To TighT Tor Treedom. ln I775 Virginia esTablished a navy OT 72 vessels, and They used QuanTico Tor a base. ln The summer OT l776, Dunmore's BriTish TleeT sToocl in aT The mouTh OT The PoTomac, brave in numbers. WiTh liTTle opposiTion Trom The lighTer Virginian vessels, The hosTile TleeT puT a landing parTy ashore aT Aquia and burned The BrenT residence. Then The ships sailed pasT QuanTico and came To anchor aT Occoquan esTuary. Dunmore's mission, a raid on The American CapiTal and capTure OT General WashingTon, was a Tailure. By The end OT The RevoluTion, The Virginia TleeT had been pracTically clesTroyed in baTTle. BuT Trade and com-