Genealogy Projects tagged with US marines on the Geni Family Tree

Haiti - 20th century

century==In January 1914, British, German and U.S. military forces entered Haiti, ostensibly to protect their citizens from civil unrest at the time.[75] In an expression of the Theodore Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, the United States occupied the island in 1915. U.S. Marines were stationed in the country until 1934, a period of nineteen years.Sisal was introduced to Haiti, and su...