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Siege of Port Royal, Nova Scotia
Unit/ Formation: Marine Regiments Location: Canada Period/ Conflict: Queen Anne's War Year: 1710 Date/s: 5 – 13 October 1710 Nicholson’s...

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Oct 6, 20221 min read
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Action on the Druid
Unit/ Formation: His Majesty's Marine Forces Location: Atlantic Ocean Period/ Conflict: 1700's Year: 1777 Date/s: 03 October 1777 Oct 3,...

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Oct 3, 20221 min read
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Hell Ship - Lisbon Maru
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Chinese coast Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1942 Date/s: 1 October 1942 1942 Lisbon Maru,...

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Oct 29, 20213 min read
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43 Commando - Landing at Dubrovnik
Unit/ Formation: 43 Cdo RM Location: Yugoslavia Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 29th October 1944 Floydforce was the...

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Oct 29, 20212 min read
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Sinking of SS Abosso
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Atlantic Ocean Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1942 Date/s: 29th October 1942 SS Abosso,...

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Oct 29, 20215 min read
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Hanna Snell Joins the Marines 1747
Unit/ Formation: RM People Location: Great Britain Period/ Conflict: Year: 1747 Date/s: 23 October 1747 Hannah Snell was born in...

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Oct 23, 20212 min read
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Battle of Kudjwa - Indian Mutiny
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: India Period/ Conflict: Indian Mutiny Year: 1857 Date/s: 31st October 1857 After their arrival...

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Oct 14, 20214 min read
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Balaclava - Marine Heights and the Charge of the Heavy and Light Brigade
After the Battle of the Alma, the Armies marched towards Sebastopol; moving round the East side, they invested the fortress on the South...

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Oct 14, 20215 min read
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The Trenches of Colincamps
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1916 Date/s: 12th October 1916 On the night of the...

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Oct 12, 20213 min read
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Operation Mercerised - Attack on Sarandë and Surrender of Corfu
Unit/ Formation: 40 Cdo RM Location: Albania Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1944 Date/s: 9 - 12 October 1944 No. 2 Commando...

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Oct 9, 20212 min read
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Evacuation of Abadan Oil workers
Unit/ Formation: HM Ships Location: Abadan Iraq Period/ Conflict: Year: 1951 Date/s: 3 October 1951 The Abadan Crisis occurred from 1951...

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Oct 3, 20212 min read
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Amphibious Raid from USS Perch
Unit/ Formation: 41 Cdo RM Location: Korea Period/ Conflict: Korean War Year: 1950 Date/s: 1 October 1950 The Royal Marines and the USS...

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Oct 1, 20214 min read
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30 CDO - Raid on Algiers
Unit/ Formation: 30 Cdo Location: Maghreb Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1942 Date/s: 8 November 1942 Two British warships,...

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Nov 20, 20202 min read
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Defence of Antwerp 1914
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Belgium Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1914 Date/s: October 1914 Following the fall of...

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Oct 31, 20202 min read
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Op Granby - RM Band Service
Unit/ Formation: RM Band Service Location: Kuwait Period/ Conflict: Operation Granby (Gulf War 1) Year: 1990 Date/s: 29th October 1990 -...

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Oct 29, 20201 min read
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The Second Battle of Passchendaele
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1917 Date/s: 26th to 28th October 1917 (Both RM...

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Oct 28, 20202 min read
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47 Cdo - The last shot fired in anger
Unit/ Formation: 47 Cdo RM Location: Germany Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1945 Date/s: 27th October 1945 At ERKENSCHWICK the unit...

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Oct 27, 20202 min read
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Tanker stowaways: ‘Hijacking’ ends after SBS storm ship
Seven people were detained when military forces stormed a tanker suspected to have been hijacked off the Isle of Wight. Sixteen members...

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Oct 25, 20202 min read
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Ambush in Cyprus - Loss of Marine Alasdair MacDOUGALL
Unit/ Formation: 45 Cdo RM Location: Amiados Period/ Conflict: Cyprus Emergency Year: 1958 Date/s: 22nd October 1958 Marine Alasdair...

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Oct 22, 20201 min read
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Royal Marines at The Battle of Trafalgar - Death of Nelson - 21st October 1805
Lord Nelson's victory over the combined fleets at Trafalgar, the most decisive sea battle in British history. Around 3,700 Royal Marines took part in the Battle of Trafalgar. Ninety-three officers and 2610 other ranks of the Royal Marines were at their traditional stations on the upper decks of the British ships, Nelsons Flagship HMS Victory carried 165 Marines, led by Captain Charles Adair, and it was a Marine Sergeant who carried Nelson below after being shot. At 11:45, Ne

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Oct 21, 20204 min read
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