A day earlier they had consented to summon from Kiel and Hamburg about a thousand marines who were supposed to be devoted to Noske.
Sailors and marines had organized the Republic of Oldenburg-East Frisia and elected an unlettered sailor named Bernhard Kuhnt as president.
The marines suffered themselves to be disarmed and went without resistance to barracks, with the exception of one detachment of about two hundred and fifty men, of whom all but some seventy escaped into the streets with their weapons.
The stables were at the time occupied by some of the marines who had been brought to Berlin two days earlier.
An hour later, at five-thirty o'clock, the Marines left the building, but in the evening the whole division appeared before the palace and occupied it.
A detachment of marines went to Harburg, near by, and liberated all the prisoners confined in the jail there.
Ebert, however, finally induced the Marinesto leave on condition that the government troops also left.
Everywhere the same picture: from the chief centers, Kiel and Hamburg, trains carrying armed marines and agitators are being sent out into the country.
When the stokers returned to the Markgraf they found her guarded by marines and they were not permitted to come aboard.
The Marines agreed to this, but failed to surrender the keys.
The first revolutionary emissaries reached Berlin Thursday evening, in the form of various detachments of armed marines from Hamburg.
The delivery to Barth of the keys had been entrusted two marines who constituted the military post at the Chancellor's Palace.
It grew steadily in size as it went through accretions from sailors, marines and other members of war-vessels' crews, and also from the riotous and criminal elements common to all larger cities and especially to harbor-cities.
A committee of three marines called on Major Grunewald, commander of the fortress, and insolently ordered him to direct the garrison to appoint a soldiers' council.
For this purpose, during the afternoon of the day after arrival, the marines were landed with a party of officers from the ship which had now been moved into Sylvan Bay.
In order to invest the intended declaration with becoming dignity the marines were landed on the little island on which was situated the Horahora-Kakahu pa.
I guess you know that marines date back to days of ancient Greece.
They knew they could shoot, and, on landing, they challenged the marines to a contest.
The marines got on the range before the bluejackets.
For instance, there is no bridge-building company, yet over and over again when there has been need of bridges the marines have just gone out and made them.
They beat them on skirmish, which the marines had boasted most about.
The marines decided that no bluejacket was to hold conversation with a French girl.
About 1803 there was a mutiny in the British navy, and the marines helped put it down.
The marines aren't beaten often at any sport, but when they are they take it as a tragedy.
As the marines pressed through the opening the first man was shot dead.
The United States Marinesare in command of Harper's Ferry now.
This time the Colonel called a cordon of marines and pressed the crowd into the next street.
With a shout the marines seized the ladder, five men on a side, and drove it with tremendous force against the door.
The marines have the Arsenal completely surrounded?
A sentinel of marines covered the entrance to the enclosure.
Again and again during the Civil War the marines proved themselves brave and stubborn fighters.
The marines who accompanied Commodore Perry to Japan, in 1852, took an important part in that expedition.
They must make the small arms effective and disable the enemy's men while the great guns, with which the marines have nothing to do save in case of emergency, play havoc with his ship.
A force of a hundred marines was landed, and, together with a like number of soldiers and two brass bands, marched through Yeddo to the palace of the Mikado, creating a most favorable impression on the foreign officials.
After dinner themarines are ordered to land and attack a distant fort.
Finally a frequent duty of the marines abroad is to guard the American legations and consulates and the interests of American citizens in times of revolution or public disorder.
This fortress having been captured, the marines in General Quitman's division moved directly on the City of Mexico, and were accorded the honor of first entering the palace and hoisting the American flag.
It was a force of marines who captured John Brown at Harper's Ferry, in 1859.
The marines participated gallantly in the War of 1812, and in the expedition against Quallah Battoo, a few years later, formed the van of the attacking party, and were in the thickest of the fight with the Malays.
Commander, afterward Admiral, Kimberly stated in his report that to the marines belonged the honor of "first landing and last leaving the shore.
The marines are useful in times of peace for police duty in the navy yards and on shipboard, but it is when the country is engaged in war that they most fully justify their existence.
At a critical stage of the operations, while the marines were engaged with the enemy firing from ambush, it became necessary to dislodge them, and it was desired that the Dolphin should shell the woods in which they were concealed.
He raved over the cowardice of the dark skinned soldiers he commanded, and profanely declared that, with half a dozen marines of the United States at his back, he would undertake to whip the entire Salvadorean army.
More than one volley from the marines was required to make them run.
A few musket cartridges remained, with which the marines kept up a fire on the denser masses of pirates.
The marines were not slow in obeying the order, and as the seamen bent to their oars, they continued firing away as fast as they could load.
One fine calm morning the marines had been called out to drill.
The marines and bluejackets now pushed bravely on, but encountered a terrific fire from the troops within the forts.
He might have considered that the exhibition of an officer of marines racing with a midshipman on his back was somewhat subversive of discipline.
Still undaunted, the seamen and marines stood ready to receive the expected attack.
The marines were thrusting away with their bayonets.
Numbers of the marines and sailors were knocked over.
He was offered quarter, but he would not receive it, and before any officers could interfere two marines ran the brave old gentleman through the body, and he died like a true Turk as he was.
Mr Schank and the Lieutenant ofMarines agreed that the first thing to be done was to take the fort.
The marineswere ordered to level their bayonets and the blue-jackets their pikes, and charge on.
We lost our Second-Lieutenant, five seamen and three marines killed, three officers and twenty-two men wounded.
Including marinesand blue-jackets the party mustered rather more than forty in all.
Between it and the centre, was another sailor's battery behind which were posted the grenadiers of the 60th regiment, with the marines which had been landed from the warships.
Here, eight days before, the first battle on Cuban soil, in which four American marines were killed, had been fought.
An exhibition of forty-four nocturnes, marines and chevalet pieces for which Whistler prepared the catalogue.
Ruskin: "The Painter Etcher Papers and the Nocturnes, Marines and Chevalet Pieces.
For a time they defended themselves gallantly, but at last Autolycus himself was wounded, and fell overboard in his armour, while the rest of the marines were killed fighting bravely.
While this was going on, Theophiliscus came to the rescue with three quinqueremes, and though he could not save the ship, because it was now full of water, he yet stove in three hostile vessels, and forced their marines overboard.
In the midst of loud shouts and great confusion, all the rest of his marines perished along with the ship, but he himself with two others managed to escape by swimming to the triemiolia which was coming up to the rescue.
Most of the marines were killed, but the envoys had the unexpected good fortune to escape with their lives.
All of the German prisoners captured by the Marines in the Bois de Belleau could express only surprise over the fighting capacity of their captors.
The Marines on the left flank of the divisional sector had been pushing their lines forward through triangle woods and the village of Lucy-le-Bocage.
To fill gaps between units, the Marines extended their brigade sector to between twelve and fourteen kilometres.
As the French withdrew to the rear, hard pressed by the enemy, the Marines held the new first line.
It was at five o'clock on the bright afternoon of June 6th that the United States Marines began to carve their way into history in the battle of the Bois de Belleau.
The First Division fought it out on the left, the Foreign Legion in the centre and the Second Division with the Marines pushed forward on the right.
I was with the Marines at the opening of the battle.
In such fashion did the Marines go through the Bois de Belleau.
These Marines worked with reckless courage against heavy odds, and the Germans exacted a heavy toll for every machine gun that was captured or disabled, but in spite of losses the Marine advance continued.
For the performance of deeds of exceptional valour, more than a hundred Marines were awarded Distinguished Service Crosses.
In broad daylight one group of Marines rushed a German machine gun pit in the open, killed or wounded every man in the crew, disabled the gun and got back to their lines in safety.
On June 1st, the 6th Marines relieved the French on the support lines.
In a few minutes they would be hard at work, the seamen slashing away with their cutlasses, and the marines firing, and pronging with their muskets and bayonets at their fellow-creatures.
They were again, however, driven back far enough to allow the marines and sailors to embark.
Four boats were ordered to be got ready; Lieutenant Pyke and his marines went in one of them, the others were commanded by the sea officers, with a party of blue-jackets.
My party had accompanied the marines under Lieutenant Pyke, who was shouting out "he only wished he could see a foe worthy of his steel.
The officers did their duty admirably; the marines were landed, and the blue-jackets were springing on shore before a shot was fired from the town.
Guys were fixed to one end and, with the help of the marines and a party of convicts, the spar was raised alongside the stump of the mizzen mast; and was there lashed securely, the guys being fastened as stays to the bulwarks.
The wind being favourable, no time was lost after the marines had come on board.
When this was done, he aided the marines in nailing tarpaulins over the cabin skylights, and then went round the deck, seeing that every movable article was securely lashed.
Arrayed in a close column, the ships about six hundred feet apart, the crews at the guns, and the marines drawn up on the poops, they waited in silence until the English, at 8 A.
The American infantry andmarines were to be landed "somewhere in France.
The men of the Dewey soon learned that the troopships which they were escorting carried a number of regiments of marines and several detachments of U.
Risking a glance over the top of the turret between the bases of the periscope poles, Jack was stunned with joy to see the familiar uniforms of the bluejackets and marines of the United States Navy!
Two hundred and fifty bluejackets and marines had successfully accomplished the landing and after a brief search had spotted the wireless station and the U-boat village.
Thousands of marines and blue-jackets, formed into landing parties, had been set upon shore and were now taking formal possession of the German stronghold.
Through the crowd of sailors and marines at that moment came a slender lad who elbowed his way forward with the ruthless violence of a fullback determined upon a touchdown.
Under the cover of their guns, trained upon the German fortifications at Blankenberghe, further up the coast, and another Hun fort further down the coast, the bluejackets and marines had come ashore.
But he rested only for a few minutes, waiting for the marines and the reserve of the regiment to come up; and then pursued the retreating enemy to within a mile and a half of their camp.
Jno McDonald & the Marines under that of a Lieut were landed & Engaged the Enemy who were abt.
Six marinesand four sailors, under the command of a mate, manned one of the Gefion's boats, and set out for the left bank in the direction of the suspected vessel.
The first officer, with four marines and a non-commissioned officer, boarded the steamer and saluted the captain with naval politeness.
Heideck sent the marines on deck with orders to see that no one left the ship before the captain returned.
This day the American marines took the greater portion of Belleau wood and completed the capture of it June 11.
On June 6, American marines made a gallant attack, gaining two miles on a front two and one-half miles long near Veuilly la Poterie.
This force arrived there in June, 1917, and was composed of marines and infantry from the Regular army.
The only difference is that sometimes the marines do not return.
This announcement was read to the marines as they were lined up for their noonday meal.
The natives, awed and afraid, crouched back among their huts, the marines and the sailors kept their eyes front, and the German captain opened his prayer-book.
They walked in all the dignity of full dress across the plaza to the flag-pole, and formed in line on the three sides of it, with the marines facing the sea.
At the same moment the marines raised their muskets and fired a volley, and the officers saluted and the sailors cheered.
The Marines are the handiest body of men in the service.
So the trumpeter went down the line; and when he had finished, the drummer took it up, hailing the dead Marines in their order.
This he said just as the captain had ordered the marines to fire on any who should quit the ship.
Can I ever forget the dreadful despairing shriek which rent the skies, as the bow lifting high in the air, it seemed, the stern sank down, even at the instant the marines fired their last volley: it was a volley over their own graves!
He also was forced to declare the state of siege in the capital and landed the marines of a Spanish war-ship that happened to be in the port.
The funeral cortege of Admiral Prince Philip d'Avranche was about to leave the Cohue Royale, and every eye was turned to the marines and sailors lining the road from the court-house to the church.
Then whole companies of marines returned a musketry fire at him, to no purpose.
A shower of balls from the marines piped through the air or rapped up against the planks, but the boat was tossing and jerking in the short choppy waves and to aim was impossible.
Already they could see the faces of the marines who sat in the stern, and the gleam of the lighted linstock which the gunner held in his hand.
The boat dashed alongside, her brass cannon trained upon the brigantine, and her squad of marines with their fingers upon their triggers ready to open fire.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "marines" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: jollies; ranger; service
