"robert arndt" wrote in message
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The oldest marine corps in the world was established on 26 Feb 1537,
by the way.


I kinda doubt that , I seem to recall the Phoenicians were pretty
good at that type of warfare a couple of millenia earlier and the
Athenians did a fair number of amphib operations too.

Keith

Spain was the first country to acquire a marine force when Charles V
created the Campanias Viejas del Mar de Napole in 1537. From Lepante
in 1571 to Cuba in 1898 Spanish marines fought in all battles that
made Spain a great maritime nation.

Rob

We know from Herodotus that both the Romans and Phoenicians
had marines. It was at Mylae, west of Messana and south of Lipari
that Hannibal lost to the Romans who had equipped their quinqueremes
with the corvus and packed them full of marines who stormed the
Carthaginian ships.

Keith