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Marine LtCol Edwin McClellan.
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LtCol McClellan retired fromthe USMC on June30, 1934. He returned to Philadelphia for a short time before moving to Honolulu, Hawaii. In 1941, he moved back to Philadelphia where he lived until his death.
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LtCol McClellan is best remembered for being the first Director of the Historical Section, HQMC. This would later become the Marine Corps History Division.
Edwin North (Ned) McClellan was a accomplished istorian and prolific writer. His published works consist of more than a hundred articles and books, some of which include:
The True Sandino
Uniforms of the American Marines, 1775 to 1829
How the Marine Band Started
The United States Marine Corps in the World War
Paradise of the Pacific
US Occupation of Nicaragua
From Month/Year
May / 1912
To Month/Year
September / 1926
Description The United States occupation of Nicaragua from 1912 to 1933 was part of the Banana Wars, when American troops forcefully intervened with various Latin American countries from 1898 to 1934. The formal occupation began in 1912, even though there were various other assaults by the U.S. in Nicaragua throughout this period. American military interventions in Nicaragua were designed to stop any other nation except the United States of America from building a Nicaraguan Canal.
Nicaragua assumed a quasi-protectorate status under the 1916 Bryan–Chamorro Treaty. But with the onset of the Great Depression and Augusto C. Sandino's Nicaraguan guerrilla troops fighting back against U.S. troops, it became too costly for the U.S. government and a withdrawal was ordered in 1933.