Identifier: withhelpofgodand00catl (find matches)
Title: "With the help of God and a few Marines,"
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Catlin, Albertus Wright, 1868- Dyer, Walter A. (Walter Alden), 1878-1943
Subjects: United States. Marine Corps World War, 1914-1918 -- United States World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, American
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & Company
Contributing Library: University of Massachusetts, Boston
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Massachusetts, Boston

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n Legation. Hereis the story as printed in the Indianapolis Sun: It was in the campaign of the allies against the Boxersin 1900. They had captured Tien Tsin by a hard three-day battle. A conference had been called of all the com-manders to discuss the question of advancing or waitingfor reinforcements. General Robert Meade, in com-mand of the United States Marines, was ill, and MajorLittleton W. T. Waller was the junior officer of the rep-resentatives of many nations in the conference. *One by one the older men gave their opinions that therewas no pressing need of an advance and that the troopsmust have several more days of recuperating. FinallyMajor Wallers opinion was asked, and he stood up andsaid: Gentlemen, I dont know what the rest of you meanto do, but the Marines start for Peking at 6 oclock in themorning. The Marines did start at 6 oclock in the morning,taking the allies along. It was Waller who, in October, 1901, took a battal-ion of Marines down to Samar, one of the untamed
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From the painting hy L. A. Shafer SOLDIERS OF THE SEA From the Halls of Montezuma To the shores of Tripoli, We fight our countrys battles, On the land as on the sea. âThe Marines Hymn 0 AND A FEW MARINES 247 islands of the Philippines, to clean it up. It was awild country, where no white troops had ever beforebeen, filled with hostile savages, and much cut upby streams and jungle. They were misled by theirnative guides, were lost in the wilderness, and suffereduntold privations. A number of men died on thatmarch, but Waller brought his battalion through,marching clear across the island. Meanwhile I was leading a quiet life. I went tothe Philippines in 1902, established the post in Hono-lulu in 1903, and came home in 1904. But theMarines were not idle. There were troubles in Africa,Korea, Santo Domingo, and Panama that requiredattention. About 1905 things got pretty messyin the West Indies, and some troops from Panamawere sent over to Santo Domingo. In May, 1906âI was a Major thenâ

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