| Contents |
Birth of the continental Marines -- Outbreak of hostilities: early Marine perception -- New Providence raid -- Uncombined operations, April-December 1776 -- Trenton-Princeton Campaign -- New frigates in action and the debacle on the Delaware, 1777 -- Across the Atlantic, 1777-1778 -- Year of landings and leg irons, 1778 -- Marines on the Mississippi, 1777-1779 -- Success at sea and disaster and Penobscot, 1779 -- Sailing against England, 1779-1781 -- Charleston, 1780 -- State and privateer Marines -- Mustering out, 1782-1783. |
| Abstract |
Traces the activities of one special group of Marines; the successes and failures of the group as a whole, and the fundamental aspects of modern Marine amphibious doctrine which grew out of Continental Marine experience during the eight-year fight for American independence. |
| General note | GPO Historic Shelflist Project- publication not in hand. |
| General note | GPO Cataloging Record Distribution Program (CRDP). |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-324) and index. |
| Other forms | Also issued online. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Smith, Charles Richard, 1943- Marines in the Revolution. Washington : History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1975 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 75001718 |
| GPO item number | 0383-B |
| Govt. docs number |
D 214.13:R 32/775-83 |
