Samuel Nicholas (circa 1744 - August 27, 1790) was the first officer commissioned in the United States Continental Marines (now the United States Marine Corps), and by tradition is considered to be the first Commandant of the Marine Corps. Events The third French and Indian War, known as King Georges War, breaks out at Port Royal, Nova Scotia Ongoing events War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748) Births May 19 - Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, queen of George III of Great Britain (d. ... August 27 is the 239th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (240th in leap years), with 126 days remaining. ... 1790 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... United States Marine Corps Emblem The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is a branch of the United States armed forces. ... The Commandant of the United States Marine Corps is the highest ranking officer of the United States Marine Corps, who is a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and reports to the Secretary of the Navy but not to the Chief of Naval Operations. ...
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US Marine Corps biography of Samuel Nicholas (http://hqinet001.hqmc.usmc.mil/HD/Historical/Whos_Who/Nicholas_S.htm)
The Commandant of the United States Marine Corps is the highest ranking officer of the United States Marine Corps, who is a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and reports to the Secretary of the Navy but not to the Chief of Naval Operations. ... Lieutenant Colonel William Ward Burrows (16 January 1768 – 6 March 1805) was the second Commandant of the Marine Corps. ...
SamuelNicholas (ca.1744–1790), senior officer of American Marines, was born at Philadelphia, the son of Andrew and Mary Shute Nicholas—his father a prosperous Quaker flsmith; his mother sister
By this time, Nicholas was proprietor of the popular tavern the Connostogoe Wagon, a business of the family of Mary Jenkins, whom he married in 1778.
Capt. Nicholas was still on board Alfred during her pursuit of the British ship Glasgow off the Rhode Island coast on April 6, and saw his second lieutenant killed while at his side on the quarterdeck during the 3-hour battle
Small wonder that Nicholas was fitted for the duties of a marine; with the background of supercargo to China on windjammers, and horsemanship acquired in chasing elusive foxes across the colony of Jersey.
SamuelNicholas, third of the name in America, oldest son of Major SamuelNicholas, U.S. Marines, and Mary Jenkins, succeeded to his father’s membership as a Cincinnatus in 1802.
He married Lucy Breck Reed, daughter of Samuel Payne Reed, of Cane Island, Beaufort, S.C. (son of Samuel Reed of Boston, of S.C. and Eliza Manory Dopson of S.C.), and Eliza Breck, daughter of George Breck and Catherine Israel, of Bristol, Pa. The Breck family was famed for its culture, wealth, and charm.
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