CONTENTS President’s Foreword – Admiral Sir Jonathon Band 5 Editor’s Foreword – Peter Hore 8 The Marines: The Early days – Julian Thompson 11 The Marines in Boston, 1774–75 – Anthony Bruce 18 Leathernecks: The US Marine Corps in the Age of the Barbary Pirates – Charles Neimeyer 29 ‘Against the Common Enemies’: American Allies and Partners in the First Barbary War – Benjamin Armstrong 48 Captain Ingram, the Sea Fencibles, the Signal Stations and the defence of dorset – david Clammer 61 That Matchless Victory: Trafalgar, the Royal Marines and Sea Battle in the Age of Nelson – Britt Zerbe 73 Loyal Au Mort: The Adairs at the Battle of Trafalgar – Allan Adair 84 Marine Stephen Humphries 1786–1865 – By Himself 97 The Royal Marines Battalions in the War of 1812 – Alexander Craig 107 The First Royal Marine Battalion’s Peninsular War 1810–1812 – Robert k Sutcliffe 116 3
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