title: Colonial Marines
text: # Colonial Marines
  
  Colonial Marines may refer to:
  
  ## Military
  
  * American colonial marines, Patriot naval infantry consisting of militiamen which served in various units during the American Revolutionary War
  * Continental Marines, the naval infantry corps of the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War
  * Corps of Colonial Marines, two British military units made up of freed American slaves which fought during the War of 1812
  * Troupes de marine, a corps of the French Army intended for amphibious and overseas operations
  
  ## Fiction
  
  * Colonial Marine Corps (Battlestar Galactica), a fictional military organization in the Battlestar Galactica fictional universe
  
  ### Alien franchise
  
  **Alien (Xenomorph/Space-Jockey) fictional universe**
  
  * United States Colonial Marines (Aliens), a fictional military organization
  * Aliens: Colonial Marines Technical Manual, a 1995 guide to the fictional United States Colonial Marines depicted in the 1986 film Aliens
  * Aliens: Colonial Marines (cancelled video game), a cancelled 2002 PlayStation 2 video game by Fox Interactive and Electronic Arts
  * Aliens: Colonial Marines, a 2013 video game developed by Gearbox Software
  