Before the Civil War split the nation, eighty-six Marines were called to stop an armed hostage crisis.

Under the command of Colonel Robert E. Lee, they stormed a heavily fortified brick engine house with battering rams and fixed bayonets.

The entire tactical assault took less than three minutes to save the hostages and capture John Brown.

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In September 1847, a small battalion of U.S. Marines joined an intense assault on Chapultepec Castle, a heavily fortified fortress sitting high above Mexico City. From storming stone ramparts with scaling ladders to fierce hand-to-hand fighting on narrow causeways, discover the dramatic true story behind the line "From the Halls of Montezuma" and the history of the Marine Corps Blood Stripe.

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Blood on the Sand: The First Barbary War and the Battle of Derna

Step onto the blistering sands of North Africa in Episode 3 of Leatherneck History and War Stories. We cover the First Barbary War (1801–1805), detailing President Thomas Jefferson's bold decision to combat Barbary piracy. Follow Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon and seven Marines as they lead a 500-mile march across the Libyan desert to execute a daring bayonet charge at the Battle of Derna, raising the U.S. flag on foreign soil for the first time in military history.

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