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  AN

  Historical Review

  OF THE

  _ROYAL MARINE CORPS._


  PRICE ONE GUINEA IN BOARDS.




  AN

  HISTORICAL REVIEW

  OF THE

  _ROYAL MARINE CORPS_,

  FROM ITS

  ORIGINAL INSTITUTION DOWN TO THE PRESENT ERA,

  1803.


  DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION,

  TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF CLARENCE.


  BY ALEXANDER GILLESPIE,

  FIRST LIEUTENANT AND UPWARDS OF TWENTY-FOUR YEARS AN OFFICER IN IT.

  [Illustration: "PER MARE, TERRAMQUE VINCIMUS."]


  BIRMINGHAM:

  PRINTED AND SOLD BY M. SWINNEY, No. 75, HIGH-STREET;

  SOLD ALSO BY T. EGERTON, MILITARY-LIBRARY, WHITEHALL; MESSRS.