From two battalions raised by the Continental Congress in 1775 to the Corps of today: the wars and battles the Marines fought, the leaders who shaped them, and the traditions they carry. **How to read it.** Wars and campaigns are durations, with a picture behind the timeline while they last; battles, milestones and people are moments with their picture. Chapter headings mark the eras. Hover over a cluster of moments to fan it out, and open any moment for its full notes and sources. Related events (a leader and their battle, a battle and its war) are linked. **Sources and images.** Each event links the Wikipedia article it draws on. Images are linked, not copied, from Wikimedia Commons, where most are US government works in the public domain; open an image's original for its author and license. Dates are given in UTC; where only the month or year is known, the notes say so.
102 moments · 1775-04-19T00:00:00Z CE – 2025-11-10T00:00:00Z CE · by @athan · @athan
US occupation of the Dominican Republic
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banana wars
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A US military government ran the country for eight years, with Marines fighting guerrillas in the east and building a constabulary that later became the base of Rafael Trujillo's power. **Read more:** [United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (1916–1924) — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Government_of_Santo_Domingo) *Image: Wikimedia Commons ([file page](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Marines_camp_in_the_Dominican_Republic.jpg)).*
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