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Nov 9, 2021 · Robert Mullan, son of Peggy (of Red Hot Beef Steak fame), was the official proprietor of Tun Tavern and was dubbed "Chief Marine Recruiter." Nicholas and Mullan recruited skilled marksmen...
Apr 29, 2024 · Reviving the Tun. Dailey said the project was conceived about 15 years ago outside of Cookie’s Tavern in South Philadelphia. Every November 10, the owner, a Marine veteran named James “Daddy Wags” Wagner, threw a birthday party for the Corps that drew hundreds and shut down Oregon Avenue. Though Cookie’s is now Tankie’s, it still ...
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Apr 22, 2021 · Steven Oldak. The Tun Tavern was co-owned by Robert Mullan when the Continental Congress called for the formation of “two Battalions of marines” in November 1775. Mullan, an acquittance of Captain Samuel Nicholas, was commissioned as a first lieutenant of the new force.
On November 10, 1775, Robert Mullan, the proprietor of the Tavern and son of Peggy Mullan, was commissioned by an act of Congress to raise the first two battalions of Marines, under the leadership of Capt. Samuel Nicholas, the first appointed Commandant of the Continental Marines.
The tavern’s manager, Robert Mullan, was the "chief Marine Recruiter". Though legend places its first recruiting post at Tun Tavern, the historian Edwin Simmons surmises that it was more likely the Conestoga Waggon [ sic ], a tavern owned by the Nicholas family.
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Tavern proprietor, Robert Mullan was a Freemason as was Samuel Nichols, the man charged by the Second Continental Congress with raising “two battalions of marines”, and together these two friends accomplished this at Mullan’s tavern ( The Tun ), likely because of its proximity to the Delaware River where the new ships of the Continental Navy wer...
Nov 6, 2013 · That very day, Nicholas went to Tun Tavern and appointed Robert Mullan, then the tavern proprietor, the honor of becoming the first U.S. Marine recruiter. Men flocked to the tavern to...
