{"id":76,"date":"2014-06-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/index.php\/2014\/06\/17\/british-marines-the-dutch-wars\/"},"modified":"2023-12-23T14:24:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T14:24:38","slug":"british-marines-the-dutch-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/index.php\/2014\/06\/17\/british-marines-the-dutch-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"British Marines &#8211; The Dutch Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These Marines are the earliest in the British forces.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-74\" style=\"margin: 10px; float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/marine2.jpg\" alt=\"marine2\" width=\"399\" height=\"653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/marine2.jpg 399w, https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/marine2-183x300.jpg 183w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/> These two figures are the 1st Earl of Torrington&#8217;s Marines in blue (1689-1698). Notice the plug bayonet and the 2nd Earl of Pembroke&#8217;s Marines in the red uniform. Copies of a Charles Stadden print, unfortunately the second one is a bit fuzzy.<\/p>\n<p>These regiments did not fight in North America&#8230;historically, at least. There is a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_the_Royal_Marines\">very good Wikipedia article<\/a> that summarizes the various regiments that were raised and subsequently disbanded prior to the regiment that eventually became the Royal Marines being raised in 1755.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-75\" style=\"margin: 10px; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/marine3.jpg\" alt=\"marine3\" width=\"433\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/marine3.jpg 433w, https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/marine3-204x300.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These Marines are the earliest in the British forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justanotherpirateblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}