{"id":62698,"date":"2015-11-10T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62698"},"modified":"2015-11-10T08:03:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T13:03:09","slug":"us-marine-corps-240th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62698","title":{"rendered":"US Marine Corps&#8217; 240th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Tun-Tavern.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Tun-Tavern-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Tun-Tavern\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Tun-Tavern-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Tun-Tavern.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>240 years ago today the Naval Committee of the Continental Congress was directed to raise two battalions of Marines, and so we got the naval infantry. The first amphibious assault by the new Marine Corps occurred in the Bahamas on March 3, 1776 when the force seized Fort Montague and Fort Nassau, a British ammunition depot and naval port in New Providence.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Afghanistan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Afghanistan-300x143.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Afghanistan\" width=\"300\" height=\"143\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Afghanistan-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Afghanistan.jpg 843w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So Happy Birthday, Marine Corps. From the Halls of Montezuma to shores of Tripoli. From the peak of Suribachi to the alleyways of Fallujah. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>240 years ago today the Naval Committee of the Continental Congress was directed to raise two &hellip; <a title=\"US Marine Corps&#8217; 240th anniversary\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62698\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US Marine Corps&#8217; 240th anniversary<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}