Military history of the United States

Table of contents

1 Militarized Conflicts 2 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 8 Secession Attempts, etc. 9 Covert Operations, U.S.-Supported Coups, etc. 10 Miscellaneous 10.1 Latter-Day Saints 10.2 Republic of Texas 11 See Also 12 External links

Militarized Conflicts

• American Revolutionary War (1776–1783)
• 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)
• Occupation of Nicaragua (1867, 1894–1933)
• Hawaiian Coup (1893)
• Spanish-American War (1898)
• Samoan Civil War (1898–1899)
• Philippine-American War (1899–1913)
• Boxer Rebellion (1900)
• Panamanian Revolution (1903)
• Tampico Affair (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 (Northern Russian Expedition) (Russian Civil War) (1919–1921)
• Shanghai Landing
• Spanish Civil War (1936–1938)
• World War II (1941–1945)
• Cold War (1946–1989)
• Korean War (1950–1953)

• 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 (August 1982-February 1984)
• Invasion of Grenada (1983)
• Operation El Dorado Canyon (1986)
• Operation Earnest Will (1987-1988)
• Operation Prime Chance (1987-1988)
• Operation Praying Mantis (14 April 1988)
• Operation Golden Pheasant (1988)
• Invasion of Panama (1989)
• Gulf War (1991)
  • Iraqi no-fly zones (1991–2003)
  • Operation Provide Comfort (1991-1996)
• 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 (1999)
• War on Terrorism (2001—)
  • Invasion of Afghanistan (2001—)
• Iraq War (2003—)
• Haiti rebellion (2004)

• Sullivan Expedition (1779)
• Northwestern Indian Wars (1790–1795, 1811)
• Battle of Fallen Timbers (1794)
• Nickajack Expedition (1794)
• Sabine Expedition (1806)
• Tecumseh's War (1811)
  • Battle of Tippecanoe (1811)
• Little Belt Affair (1811)
• Peoria War (1813)
• Creek War (1813–1814)
  • Battle of Horseshoe Bend (1814)
• Seminole Wars (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)
• Sabine-Southwestern War (1836–1837)
• Osage Indian War (1837)
• Navajo Wars (1849–1861)
• Cayuse War (1848–1855)
• Pitt River Expedition (1850)
• Mariposa War (1850–1851)
• Yuma Expedition (1851–1852)
• Walker War (1853)
• 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)
• Florida Indian War (1855–1858)
• 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 War (1862-1863)
• Cheyenne-Arapaho-Kiowa-Comanche Wars (1863–1869)
  • Sand Creek Massacre (1864)
• Snake War (1864–1868)
• 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)
• Black Hills War (1876–1877)
  • Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876)
• Nez Perce War (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)

• Trail of Tears (1838–1839)
• Long Walk of the Navajo (1868)
• Lynching epidemic (~1880–~1920)
• Japanese American internment (1942–1946)

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

• 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)

• 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)

• Green Mountain Boys (pre-U.S. through Revolution)
• Francis Marion (1780–1782)
• Bleeding Kansas (~1854–~1860)
• 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)
• Wall Street Bombing (1920)
• Capitol Attack (1954)
• Weather Underground (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)

• Westsylvania (1776)
• Republic of Vermont (1777–1791)
• State of Franklin (~1784–~1790)
• Oconee War (1784)
• Burr Conspiracy (~1804–~1807)
• Republic of West Florida (1810)
• Republic of Indian Stream (1832–1842)
• Patriot War (1837–1838)
• Free City of Tri-Insula (1861)
• Confederate States of America (1861–1865)
• State of Jefferson (1941)
• Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket (1977)
• Conch Republic (1982)

• Baltimore Crisis (Chile, 1891)
• Operation Ajax (Iran, 1951–1953)
• Operation PBSUCCESS (Guatemala, 1954)
• Bay of Pigs Invasion (Cuba, 1961)
• Operation Mongoose (Cuba, 1961–1963)
• Brazilian Military Coup (Brazil 1964)
• Secret War (Cambodia-Laos, 1962–1975)
• Chilean Coup (Chile, 1974)
• Argentine Military Coup (Argentine, 1976)
• Operation Condor (Latin America, 1960s–1970s)
• Mujahideen vs. USSR (Afghanistan, 1979–1989)
• Contras (Nicaragua, 1980s)

• Yankee-Pennamite Wars (1769–1784)
• Chesapeake Affair (1807)
• Virginius Affair (1873)
• Hatfields and McCoys (1860–1891)
• Fenian Invasion of Canada (1866)
• 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)
• Vincennes Incident (1988)

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

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

• Militia
• 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

• 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

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