Semper Fi.
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On 3 March 1776 in the British West Indies, Col Dickenson oil painted the Continental Marines storming Fort Montagu, New Providence Island, under the command of Capt Samuel Nicholas, senior Marine officer of the American Revolution.</center>
"I have only two out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold." (First Lieutenant Clifton B. Cates, USMC, 96th Co., Soissons, 19 July 1918.)
"Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning." (Colonel David M. Shoup, USMC, Tarawa, 21 November 1943.)
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