US Marine Corps History..

[FlyHi]

 

US Marine Corps History......

Including how the term ‘Leatherneck’ came to be.

Most Americans are unaware of the fact that over two hundred years ago, the United States had declared war on Islam, and Thomas Jefferson led the charge!

At the height of the eighteenth century, Muslim pirates were the terror of the Mediterranean and a large area of the North Atlantic. They attacked every ship in sight, and held the crews for exorbitant

ransoms. Those taken hostage were subjected to barbaric treatment and wrote heartbreaking letters home, begging their Government and family members to pay whatever their Mohammedan captors

demanded.

These extortionists of the high seas represented the Islam of Tripoli, Tunis, Morocco, and Algiers – collectively referred to as the Barbary Coast – and presented a dangerous and unprovoked threat to the new American Republic.

Before the Revolutionary War, U.S. merchant ships had been under the protection of Great Britain.

When the U.S. declared its independence and entered into war, the ships of the United States were protected by France. However, once the war was won, America had to protect its own fleets. Thus, the birth of the U.S. Navy.

Beginning in1784, seventeen years before he would become President, Thomas Jefferson became America’s Minister to France. That same year, the U.S. Congress sought to appease its Muslim adversaries by following in the footsteps of European nations who paid bribes to the Barbary States, rather than engaging them in war.

In July of 1785, Algerian pirates captured American ships, and the Bey of Algiers demanded an unheard-of ransom of $60,000. It was a plain and simple case of extortion, and Thomas Jefferson was vehemently opposed to any further payments. Instead, he proposed to Congress the formation of a coalition of allied nations who together could force the Islamic states into peace. A disinterested Congress decided to pay the ransom.

In 1786, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams met with Tripoli’s ambassador to Great Britain to ask by what right his nation attacked American ships and enslaved American citizens, and why Muslims held so much hostility towards America, a nation with which they had no previous contacts.

The two future Presidents reported that Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja had answered that Islam "was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Quran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and

duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every 

Musselman

 (Muslim) who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to

Paradise."

Despite this stunning admission of premeditated violence on non-Muslim nations, as well as the objections of many notable American leaders, including George Washington, who warned that caving in was both wrong and would only further embolden the enemy, for the following fifteen years the American Government paid the Muslims millions of dollars for the safe passage of American ships or the return of American hostages. The payments in ransom and tribute amounted to over twenty percent of the United States Government annual revenues in 1800.

Jefferson was disgusted. Shortly after his being sworn in as the third President of the United States in 1801, the Pasha of Tripoli sent him a note demanding the immediate payment of $225,000 plus $25,000 a year for every year forthcoming. That changed everything.

Jefferson let the Pasha know in no uncertain terms what he could do with his demand. The Pasha responded by cutting down the flagpole at the American consulate and declared war on the United States. Tunis, Morocco, and Algiers immediately followed suit. Jefferson, until now, had been against America raising a naval force for anything beyond coastal defence, but having watched his

nation be cowed by Islamic thuggery for long enough, decided that it was finally time to meet force with force.

He dispatched a squadron of frigates to the Mediterranean and taught the Muslim nations of the Barbary Coast a lesson he hoped they would never forget. Congress authorized Jefferson to empower U.S. ships to seize all vessels and goods of the Pasha of Tripoli and to “cause to be done all other acts of precaution or hostility as the state of war would justify”.

When Algiers and Tunis, who were both accustomed to American cowardice and acquiescence, saw the newly independent United States had both the will and the might to strike back, they quickly abandoned their allegiance to Tripoli.

The war with Tripoli lasted for four more years, and raged up again in 

1815.

The bravery of the U.S. Marine Corps in these wars led to the line “to the shores of Tripoli” in the Marine Hymn, They would forever be known as “leathernecks” for the leather collars of their uniforms, designed to prevent their heads from being cut off by the Muslim scimitars when boarding enemy ships.

Islam, and what its Barbary followers justified doing in the name of their prophet and their God, disturbed Jefferson quite deeply.  America had a tradition of religious tolerance, the fact that Jefferson, himself, had co-authored the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, but fundamentalist Islam was like no other religion the world had ever seen. A religion based on supremacism, whose

holy book not only condoned but mandated violence against unbelievers was unacceptable to him. His greatest fear was that someday this brand of Islam would return and pose an even greater threat to the United States.

This should bother every American. Right here in our country Islamists have brought about women-only classes and swimming times at taxpayer-funded universities and public pools; that Christians, Jews, and Hindus have been banned from serving on juries where Muslim defendants are being judged, Piggy banks and Porky Pig tissue dispensers have been banned from workplaces because they offend Islamist sensibilities. Ice cream has been discontinued at certain Burger

King locations because the picture on the wrapper looks similar to the Arabic script for Allah, public schools are pulling pork from their menus, on and on in the newspapers….

It’s death by a thousand cuts, or inch-by-inch as some refer to it, and most Americans have no idea that this battle is being waged every day across America. By not fighting back, by allowing groups to obfuscate what is really happening, and not insisting that the Islamists adapt to our own culture, the United States is cutting its own throat with a politically correct knife, and helping to further the Islamist agenda.

Sadly, it appears that today’s America would rather be politically correct than victorious.

Doubtful? Just Google Thomas Jefferson v the Muslim World.

 

[gymrat76541]

Hats off to all the "Jarheads". Much respect!

[MyLadiesDaddy]

Oh freaking RAAAAHH. Allow me to quote for you the first line of the Marine Corps

Hymn. " From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli. We will fight our

Countries battles, in the air on land and sea. ........."

YES your account is exactly what I was taught while in the Corps. And that is predominantly

why I have such an affinity for dead Muslims, I know my history.

"Those who don't learn their history, are doomed to repeat it"

PRAY FOR REVIVAL EVERYDAY

another day closer

[SnowGlobe7]

ooh rah

[dantach]

When I was in, My Commander in Chief was a man named Ike!

 

Jefferson's motto: millions for defense, not one penny for tribute!

 

The Marines served under a navel officer named DeCatur.

[gymrat76541]

Yeah being retired Army. I have always respected our brothers.

One thing that kills me is; anyone - ever a guy who spend one day in boot camp before being kicked out, goes through life proudly claiming to have been a marine for the rest of his days! LOL

Must be some brain washing system ya'll got there!

[nstoolman1]

Thought I would throw this in. I get goose bumps and a tear in the eye when I hear it.

 

From the Halls of Montezuma 

To the shores of Tripoli;

We fight our country's battles

In the air, on land, and sea:

First to fight for right and freedom

And to keep our honor clean;

We are proud to claim the title

Of United States Marine.

 

Our flag's unfurled to every breeze

From dawn to setting sun;

We have fought in every clime and place

Where we could take a gun;

In the snow of far-off Northern lands

And in sunny tropic scenes,

You will find us always on the job

The United States Marines.

 

Here's to health to you and to our Corps

Which we are proud to serve;

In many a strife we've fought for life

And never lost our nerve.

If the Army  and the Navy 

Ever look on Heaven's scenes,

They will find the streets are guarded

By United States Marines.

 

 

  My heart felt "Thanks" to all who proudly serve. 

Edited November 1, 2014 by nstoolman1

[Catalina]

Yeah being retired Army. I have always respected our brothers.One thing that kills me is; anyone - ever a guy who spend one day in boot camp before being kicked out, goes through life proudly claiming to have been a marine for the rest of his days! LOLMust be some brain washing system ya'll got there!

Hubby says the Army is where the washouts go!

But I won't hold that against you Mr GymRat!

[MyLadiesDaddy]

Yeah being retired Army. I have always respected our brothers.One thing that kills me is; anyone - ever a guy who spend one day in boot camp before being kicked out, goes through life proudly claiming to have been a marine for the rest of his days! LOLMust be some brain washing system ya'll got there!

LOL, people always ask me what's wrong with me. I just tell them I'm a hard charging

do or die devil dog Marine and that you never fully recover from that kind of

brain washing. LOL

PRAY FOR REVIVAL EVERYDAY

another day closer

[haymon]

A big THANK YOU for all that served, past, present, and future.  

[RodandStaff]

Sandfly for that informative post FlyHi...just another reminder that they are not "a peaceful religion"! Makes me mad how we are selling our country out. Flint, MI. Is basically run by Muslims...even the law enforcement does their bidding...no one wants to ruffle anyone's feathers or be politically incorrect! Couple that with the fact that we are selling off landmarks to the Chinese faster than we can imagine and it's lookin' like a bleak future for this once great nation. The only chance we have...imho....is to do what LGD says in ever post..."pray for revival everyday"!!! We were founded on the principles of Christianity and religious freedoms...the only way to survive is get back to those roots!!!

[Catalina]

Sandfly for that informative post FlyHi...just another reminder that they are not "a peaceful religion"! Makes me mad how we are selling our country out. Flint, MI. Is basically run by Muslims...even the law enforcement does their bidding...no one wants to ruffle anyone's feathers or be politically incorrect! Couple that with the fact that we are selling off landmarks to the Chinese faster than we can imagine and it's lookin' like a bleak future for this once great nation. The only chance we have...imho....is to do what LGD says in ever post..."pray for revival everyday"!!! We were founded on the principles of Christianity and religious freedoms...the only way to survive is get back to those roots!!!

Ditto! I wholeheartedly agree with you!

Please satisfy my Curiosity.

Why do you start your post with Sandfly's?

I have seen posts (albeit terse posts) by a member by that name.

[RodandStaff]

Ditto! I wholeheartedly agree with you!

Please satisfy my Curiosity.

Why do you start your post with Sandfly's?

I have seen posts (albeit terse posts) by a member by that name.

That's simple...it's just showing a little respect and appreciation to "Mr. Thankful"...aka "Sandfly"!!! He may walk softly but he carries a big stick!!!

Sandfly to all who serve!!!

Edited November 5, 2014 by RodandStaff