The Marine Corps may celebrate its birthday on Nov. 10, but its real birthday is actually on July 11, 1798
Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Nov.10,2020. The U.S. Marine Corps may celebrate its birthday on Nov.10, but its real birthday is in the middle of July. It’s a fact that most Marines are probably unaware of but a fact nonetheless, according to the Marine Corps History Division, which records the official institutional and operational history of the service. The Second Continental Congress passed a resolution that established two battalions of Continental Marines on Nov.10,1775, which the Corps now celebrates as its official birthday, with this year marking 246 years of existence. But as the History Division notes in its Brief History of the United States Marine Corps, the Continental Marine Corps was disbanded after the Revolutionary War “ for reasons of economy ” in 1783 and ceased to exist for the next 15 years.
