On Saturday, November 4 at 1:30 PM, we commemorated the Marine Corps birthday with Jason Q. Bohm (Maj. Gen. USMC) as he discussed his book on the founding and early years of the corps.
The story began with the oppressive days that drove America into a conflict for which it was ill-prepared, when thirteen independent colonies commenced a war against the world’s most powerful military with nothing more than local militias, privateers, and other ad hoc units.
It continued with the creation of the Continental Marines and the men who led them during the parallel paths followed by the Army and Marines in the war’s opening years and the early successes and failures at Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill, Canada, Boston, Charleston, and more. The story concluded as Washington’s Marines join their fellow soldiers in a protracted land campaign that culminated in turning-point victories at Trenton, Assunpink Creek, and Princeton.