U.S. Occupation of Haiti Begins

Date: July 28, 1915 • Location: Port-au-Prince, Haiti

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 1915–1934.

U.S. Marines landed at Port-au-Prince to begin a nineteen-year occupation of Haiti.

The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines or simply the Marines, is the naval infantry service branch of the United States Armed Forces. The service is responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious warfare through combined arms, implementing its own infantry, artillery, aerial, and special operations forces. The U.S. Marine Corps is a part of the United States Department of Defense and is one of the six armed forces of the United States and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.