Friday, July 13, 2018

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History of the Marine Corps Hymn

The music to the hymn is believed to have originated in the comic opera GeneviĆ©ve de Brabant composed by the French composer Jacques Offenbach. ... The unknown author of the first verse of the hymn reversed this order to read “From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli.”