U.S. Marine Corps Archives – UNTO THE BREACH

June 4 in U.S. military history

1919: U.S. Marines land in Costa Rica to protect American interests when the government is overthrown by a coup. 1934:

1907: A detachment of Marines from the gunboat USS Paducah (PG-18) land in Honduras to protect American nationals during a

1837: U.S. soldiers and Marines under the command of Col. Archibald Henderson — a serving Marine Corps commandant — defeat

1804: Marine Corps 1st Lt. Presley O’Bannon, William Eaton, Navy Midshipman George Mann, and seven Marines land at Alexandria, Egypt

1775: The Continental Congress decrees that two battalions of Marines be raised in Philadelphia, consisting of “good seamen, or so