List of U.S. military history events

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The list includes notable events about the military history of the United States. The categories on this (incomplete, in-development) list are somewhat arbitrary: Not all of these events were military, some were not even violent, but together they delineate the periodic reappearance of the martial spirit in the life of the United States. The items enumerated here begin with the establishment of the states in 1776, and either are located within territorial boundaries of the United States or involve the armed forces of the federal government or the militias of the separate states and territories.

Contents 1 Militarized conflicts 2 American Indian conflicts, wars, battles, expeditions and campaigns 3 Ethnic cleansing and control 4 Armed insurrections and slave revolts 5 Range wars 6 Bloodless boundary disputes 7 Terror, paramilitary groups and guerrilla warfare 7.1 18th & 19th century 7.2 20th & 21st century 8 Covert operations, coups, military advisors etc. 9 Miscellaneous 9.1 Latter-Day Saints 9.2 Republic of Texas 10 See also 11 External links 12 Further reading

Militarized conflicts

This is a list of militarized conflicts involving the United States, the dates show the years in which U.S. military units (primarily regular, occasionally irregular) participated. The bolded items are the U.S. wars most often considered to be major conflicts by historians and the general public.

• American Revolutionary War (1775–1783)
• Quasi-War (1798–1801)
• First Barbary War (1801–1805)
• War of 1812 (1812–1815)
• Second Barbary War (1815)
• Mexican-American War (1846–1848)
  • Bear Flag Revolt (1846)
• Nicaragua Naval Battles (1854–1858)
• Utah War (1857–1858)
• American Civil War (1861–1865)
• Reconstruction (1865–1877)
• Occupation of Nicaragua (1867, 1894–1933)
• Shinmiyangyo Battle in Korea (1871)
• Spanish-American War (1898)
• Samoan Civil War (1898–1899)
• Philippine-American War (1899–1913)
• Boxer Rebellion (1900)
• Panamanian Revolution (1903)
• Second U.S. occupation of Cuba (1906–1909)
• Tampico Affair & Occupation of Veracruz, Mexico (1914)
• Invasion of Haiti (1915-1934)
• Occupation of the Dominican Republic (1916–1924)
• Pancho Villa Expedition (1916–1917)
• World War I (1917–1918)
• Polar Bear Expedition (Russian Civil War) (1918–1919)
• Spanish Civil War (1936–1938)
• World War II (1941–1945)
• Cold War (1945–1991)
  • Korean War (1950–1953)
    

    

    The Vietnam War was one of the longest military conflicts in U.S. history.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis (Oct-Nov 1962)
  • Vietnam War (1964–1975)
• Invasion of Dominican Republic (1965)
• Capture of USS Pueblo (1968)
• Mayagüez Incident (1975)
• Operation Eagle Claw (1980)
• Gulf of Sidra Incidents (1981, 1989)
• Lebanon Peacekeeping (1982–1984)
• Operation Urgent Fury (Grenada) (1983)
• Libyan Patrol Boats (Jan-Mar 1986)
• Operation El Dorado Canyon (15 April 1986)
• Operation Earnest Will (1987–1988)
  • Operation Prime Chance (1987–1988)
  • Operation Praying Mantis (1988)
• Operation Golden Pheasant (1988)
• USS Vincennes shootdown of Iran Air Flight 655 (1988)
• Operation Just Cause (Panama) (1989)
• Persian Gulf War (1990–1991)
  • Iraqi No-Fly Zones (1991–2003)
  • Operation Provide Comfort (1991–1996)
• Somali Civil War (1993-1995)
  • Battle of Mogadishu (1993)
• Operation Uphold Democracy (Haiti) (1994)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina (as member of IFOR and SFOR peacekeeping forces, 1995—)
• Operation Infinite Reach (strikes on Sudan and Afghanistan, 1998)
• Kosovo War (NATO operations, 1999)
• War on Terrorism (2001—)
  • Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan) (2001—)
  • Iraq War (2003—)
• Haiti Rebellion (2004)

American Indian conflicts, wars, battles, expeditions and campaigns

See also: Indian Wars, Indian massacres

• Wyoming Valley Massacre (1778)
• Cherry Valley Massacre (1778)
• Sullivan Expedition (1779)
• Northwest Indian War (1785–1795)
• Nickajack Expedition (1794)
• Sabine Expedition (1806)
• Tecumseh's War (1811-1813)
• Little Belt Affair (1811)
• Peoria War (1813)
• Creek War (1813–1814)
• Seminole Wars (1812, 1817–1818, 1835–1842, 1855–1858)
• Arikara War (1823)
• Fever River War (1827)
• Le Fèvre Indian War (1827)
• Sac and Fox War (1831)
• Black Hawk War (1832)
• Pawnee Indian Territory Campaign (1834)
• Creek Alabama Uprising (1835-1837)
• Missouri-Iowa Border War (1836)
• Sabine-Southwestern War (1836–1837)
• Cherokee Uprising (1836-1838)
• Osage Indian War (1837)
• Cayuse War (1848–1855)
• Navajo Wars (1849–1861)
  • Long Walk of the Navajo (1863–1868)
• Southwest Indian Wars (1849-1863)
• Pitt River Expedition (1850)
• Mariposa War (1850–1851)
• Yuma Expedition (1851–1852)
• Utah Indian Wars (1851-1853)
• Walker War (1853)
• Grattan Massacre (1855)
• Yakima War (1855)
• Snake River War (1855)
• Klickitat War (1855)
• Puget Sound War (1855–1856)
• Rogue River Wars (1855–1856)
• Klamath and Salmon Indian Wars (1855)
• Tintic War (1856)
• Gila Expedition (1857)
• Mendocino War (1858)
• Spokane-Coeur d'Alene-Paloos War (1858)
• Pecos Expedition (1859)
• Antelope Hills Expedition (1859)
• Bear River Expedition (1859)
• Paiute War (1860)
• Kiowa-Comanche War (1860)
• Cheyenne Campaign (1861–1864)
• Sioux Uprising (1862)
• Colorado War (1863–1869)
• Snake War (1864–1868)
• Utah's Black Hawk War (1865–1872)
• Red Cloud's War (1866–1868)
• Comanche Wars (1867–1875)
• Battle of Washita River (1868)
• Marias Massacre (1870)
• Modoc War (1872–1873)
• Red River War (1874)
• Apache Wars (1873, 1885–1886)
• Eastern Navada Expedition (1875)
• Black Hills War (1876–1877)
• Nez Percé Wars (1877)
• Bannock War (1878)
• Cheyenne War (1878–1879)
• Sheepeater Indian War (1879)
• White River War (1879)
• Ute War (1879-1880)
• Ghost Dance War (1890–1891)
• Wounded Knee Massacre (1890)
• New Mexico Navajo War (1913)
• Colorado Paiute War (1915)
• AIM Takeovers (~1969–~1974)

Ethnic cleansing and control

• Indian Removal (1830s)
  • Trail of Tears (1838–1839)
• WWII-Era Japanese American Internment (1942–1946)

Armed insurrections and slave revolts

See also: Slave rebellion, Tax revolt

• Shays' Rebellion (1786)
• Whiskey Rebellion (1794)
• John Fries' Rebellion (1799)
• Gabriel's Rebellion (1800)
• Malta War (1808–1809)
• Louisiana Territory Slave Rebellion (1811)
• Fort Blount Revolt (1816)
• Denmark Vesey's Uprising (1822)
• Nat Turner's Rebellion (1831)
• Patriot War (1837–1838)
• Amistad Seizure (1839)
• Anti-Rent War (1839–~1844)
• Creole Incident (1841)
• Dorr Rebellion (1841–1842)
• John Brown's Raid on Federal Armory at Harper's Ferry (1859)
• Salinero Revolt (1877)
• Jayuya Uprising (1950)

Range wars

See also: Range war

• Franklin County War (Idaho, 1866–1872)
• Mason County War (Texas, 1874–1877)
• Colfax County War (New Mexico, 1875)
• Lincoln County War (New Mexico, 1877–1878)
• Johnson County War (Wyoming, 1892)
• Pleasant Valley War (Arizona, 1886)
• Sheep Wars (Texas-New Mexico borderlands, ~1879–1900)
• Posey War (Utah, 1923)

Bloodless boundary disputes

• Toledo War (1835, Michigan Territory-Ohio)
• Aroostook War (1838–1839, U.S.-Canada)
• Honey War (1839, Iowa Territory-Missouri)
• Fifty-Four Forty or Fight! (1844, U.S.-Canada)
• Pig War (1859, U.S.-Canada)
• Chamizal Dispute (1895–1963, U.S.-Mexico)
• Alaska Boundary Dispute (1907, U.S.-Canada)
• Bridge War (1932, Oklahoma-Texas)

Terror, paramilitary groups and guerrilla warfare

See also: List of terrorist incidents, Timeline of Islamic terrorism against the United States

18th & 19th century

• Francis Marion (1780–1782)
• Bleeding Kansas (~1854–~1860)
  • Wakarusa War (1855)
• Cortina Troubles (1859–1861)
• Kansas Jayhawkers (1861–1863)
• Quantrill's Raiders (1861–1863)
• Ku Klux Klan (1877–present)
• Knights of the White Camelia
• White League (1874–)
  • Coushatta Massacre (1874)
  • Colfax Riot (1874)

20th & 21st century

• Black Patch Tobacco Wars (1904-1914?)
• Wall Street Bombing (1920)
• Capitol Attack (1954)
• Weathermen (1969–1976)
• Symbionese Liberation Army (1970s)
• Marine Barracks Bombing (1983)
• U.S. Embassy Bombing (1983)
• World Trade Center Bombing (1993)
• Oklahoma City Bombing (1994)
• U.S. Embassy Bombings (1998)
• USS Cole Bombing (2000)
• 9/11 (2001)

Covert operations, coups, military advisors etc.

• Baltimore Crisis (Chile, 1891)
• Hawaiian Coup (Hawaii, 1893)
• Greek Civil War (1946-1949)
• Operation Ajax (Iran, 1951–1953)
• Operation PBSUCCESS (Guatemala, 1954)
• Bay of Pigs Invasion (Cuba, 1961)
• The Cuban Project, also known as Operation Mongoose (Cuba, 1961–1962)
• Brazilian Military Coup (Brazil 1964)
• Secret War (Cambodia-Laos, 1962–1975)
• Chilean Coup (Chile, 1973)
• Argentine Military Coup (Argentina, 1976)
• Operation Condor (Latin America, 1960s–1970s)
• Mujahideen vs. USSR (Afghanistan, 1979–1989)
• Contras (Nicaragua, 1980s)
• El Salvador (1981-1992)
• Pentagon-contracted advisors to Croatia prior to Operation Storm (1994)

Miscellaneous

• Yankee-Pennamite Wars (1769–1784)
• Oconee War (1784)
• Burr Conspiracy (~1804–~1807)
• Chesapeake Affair (1807)
• Railroad War (1853–1855)
• Hatfields and McCoys (1860–1891)
• Sinking of the General Sherman (1866)
• Fenian Invasion of Canada (1866)
• Brooks-Baxter War (1873)
• Virginius Affair (1873)
• Canal Zone Riots (1964)
• Israeli Attack on USS Liberty (1967)
• Kent State Shootings (1970)
• War on Drugs (~1972—)
• Iran Hostage Crisis (1979–1981)
• Iraqi Attack on USS Stark (1987)
• USBATF Raid on Branch Davidians (1993)

Latter-Day Saints

• Mormon War (1838)
• Mountain Meadows Massacre (1857)

Republic of Texas

• Texas Revolution (1835–1836)
• Texas Santa Fe Expedition (1841)

See also

• Military history of the United States
• Militia
• World War
• United States Armed Forces
• Awards and decorations of the United States military
• Department of Defense
• United States casualties of war
• List of riots
• List of strikes
• List of massacres
• List of military and non-military operations and projects
• List of U.S. foreign interventions since 1945
• List of U.S. military leaders by rank
• Timeline of Islamic terrorism against the United States

External links

• Instances of Use of United States Forces Abroad, 1798-1993 by Ellen C. Collier, Specialist in U.S. Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division
• United States Military Campaigns, Conflicts, Expeditions and Wars Compiled by Larry Van Horn, U.S. Navy Retired
• Basic Statistics for United States Imperialism

Further reading

• Ward Churchill On the Justice of Roosting Chickens: Reflections on the Consequences of U.S. Imperial Arrogance and Criminality ISBN 1902593790, AK Press, 2003

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