Two Hundred and Thirty Two years ago, before America was 'officially' America, in a bar called Tun Tavern, built by Samuel Carpenter in 1685 on a Philadelphia waterfront, the most highly respected fighting force in the world was born.
On November 10, 1775, Robert Mullan, the proprietor of the Tavern, was commissioned by an act of Congress to raise the first two battalions of Marines, under the .....
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