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Smedley Darlington Butler  

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  • General, U.S. Marine Corps Smedley Darlington Butler was probably the most colorful and controversial Marine in American history. He outmaneuvered, overawed, or outfought hostile forces in the Philippines, China, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, and Haiti, winning two Congressional Medals of Honor in the process. [Source: Encyclopedia of War & American Society; Butler, Smedley Darlington (1881–1940)]

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