On this day in 1775, the United States Marines Corps were formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In a resolution by the Second Continental Congress, Captain Samuel Nicholas was tasked with raising two battalions of Marines in order to fight both at sea and on land against the British in the American Revolution.
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