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Last
updated on 28 February 2007.
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With
the hope of gaining badly needed gun powder for
Washington’s Army, 230 Marines and 50 sailors under
the command of Marine Capt Samuel Nicholas landed on
the island of New Providence, Bahamas, in early
March 1776.� (Marine Corps Art Collection)
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