Royal Marines
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- "Pride of the King's navy you are."
- ―Jack Sparrow[src]
Royal Marines are British soldiers who were used by the Royal Navy and the East India Trading Company for fighting both at sea as well as at land.
Until 1755, when the Corps of Royal Marines was formed, the Marine regiments were part of the army, but Marines were attached to the crew of almost every big Royal Navy ship. The garrisons of fortresses in the Caribbean also consisted of Royal Marines.
Most Royal Navy ships carried a company of Royal Marines aboard; They were used by the Admiralty to rig ships before they were placed in commission and supported the navy sailors with gunfire during battles and could man the cannons. Royal Marines formed the core of boarding and landing teams and served as a kind of police force aboard the ship. The marines were often commanded by Navy officers, who sometimes had a marine rank apart from their Navy rank, there werer no Marine officers in Fort Charles or aboard the HMS Dauntless. A large number of Marines was stationed at Fort Charles; they manned the Fort’s cannons and guarded the prison.
As they were part of the army, Royal Marines wore red coats instead of the blue Navy coats, the Marines lent to the East India Trading Company wore blue/red coloured EITC uniformes.
Enlisted Marines fought with muskets with bayonetes and cutlasses, sergeants had spontoons instead of muskets and Marine officers had smallswords and pistols.
[edit] Notable Marines
[edit] Appearances
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (First appearance)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (video game)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
- Pirates of the Caribbean Online
- The Escape of Pintel and Ragetti!
