This Day in American Military History

11 July 1798: President John Adams signed the act “Establishing and Organizing a Marine Corps” that re-established the Marine Corps. The Continental Congress disbanded the service in April 1783 at the end of the American Revolution. The Marine Corps, however, recognizes its “official” birthday as the date that the Second Continental Congress first authorized the establishment of the “Corps of Marines” on November 10, 1775.

Brandus, Paul. This Day in U.S. Military History (p. 171). Bernan Press. Kindle Edition.