Talk:Continental Marines

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Orphaned references in Continental Marines[edit]

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Continental Marines's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Simmons":

From Uniforms of the United States Marine Corps: Simmons, Edwin Howard (2003). The United States Marines: A History, 4th Edition. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-790-5. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
From History of the United States Marine Corps: Simmons, Edwin Howard (2003). The United States Marines: A History, 4th Edition. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-790-5. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
From United States Marine Corps: Simmons, Edwin H. (2003). The United States Marines: A History, Fourth Edition. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-790-5.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 05:05, 18 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

James Willing and his troops -- Continental Army or Continental Marines?[edit]

The raiding expedition of James Willing down the Mississippi from Fort Pitt to New Orleans, in early 1778, is credited here as being a Continental Marines expedition. I do not think that is at all clear.

He was commissioned as a “Captain in the service of the American States”, but it was never stated whether he was a Navy Captain, a Continental Marine captain, or an Army Captain. Lots of secondary sources give differing accounts – Naval Documents of the American Revolution, vol. 11, p. 6 identifies him as an Army captain, but the USMC publication “Marines in the Revolution” (author Charles R. Smith, 1975) lays claim to him as a Marine.

Corroborating primary source information should be used to support which branch of the military he and his troops belonged to.

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Branch navy[edit]

The Continental Marines were established as an independent military branch of their own. Previously, marines were part of the navy, but this was established as its own thing, with the marine corps currently pointing to this as their origin. It may be appropriate to label them as part of the navy though.Friedbyrd (talk) 15:43, 31 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]