 Complete the following phrase:  At the beginning of August 1942, Rosecrans received orders to capture the Tulagi Island held by Japanese Forces. The 2nd Battalion landed on the morning of August 7 behind the 1st Marine Raider Battalion under Lieutet Colonel Merritt A. Edson, and Rosecrans and his men subsequently repealed several Japanese attacks with the nightfall. In the evening of August 8, the 