List of United States military history events

From 1776 to 2008, there have been hundreds of instances of the deployment of United States military forces abroad and domestically. The list through 1975 is based on Committee on International Relations (now known as the Committee on Foreign Affairs). Dates show the years in which U.S. military units participated. The bolded items are the U.S. wars most often considered to be "major conflicts" by historians and the general public. Note that instances where the U.S. gave aid alone, with no military personnel involvement, are excluded.

Extraterritorial and major domestic deployments

Portions of this list are from the Congressional Research Service report RL30172.

1806-10 -- Gulf of Mexico. American gunboats operated from New Orleans against Spanish and French privateers off the Mississippi Delta, chiefly under Captain John Shaw and Master Commandant David Porter.

1812-15 – War of 1812. On June 18, 1812, the United States declared war against the United Kingdom. Among the issues leading to the war were British impressment of American sailors into the Royal Navy, interception of neutral ships and blockades of the United States during British hostilities with France.

1814 – Spanish Florida. General Andrew Jackson took Pensacola and drove out the British forces.

1815 – Tripoli. After securing an agreement from Algiers, Captain Decatur demonstrated with his squadron at Tunis and Tripoli, where he secured indemnities for offenses during the War of 1812.

1817 – Amelia Island (Spanish territory off Florida). Under orders of President James Monroe, United States forces landed and expelled a group of smugglers, adventurers, and freebooters.

1820-1829

1820-23 -- Africa. Naval units raided the slave traffic pursuant to the 1819 act of Congress.

1822 -- Cuba. United States naval forces suppressing piracy landed on the northwest coast of Cuba and burned a pirate station.

1824 -- Puerto Rico (Spanish territory). Commodore David Porter with a landing party attacked the town of Fajardo which had sheltered pirates and insulted American naval officers. He landed with 200 men in November and forced an apology. Commodore Porter was later court-martialed for overstepping his powers.

1830-1839

1831-32 – Falkland Islands. Captain Silas Duncan of the USS "Lexington" investigated the capture of three American sailing vessels and sought to protect American interests.

1835-36 – Peru. - December 10, 1835, to January 24, 1836, and August 31 to December 7, 1836. Marines protected American interests in Callao and Lima during an attempted revolution.

1840-1849

1840 – Fiji Islands. - July. Naval forces landed to punish natives for attacking American exploring and surveying parties.

1842 – Mexico. Commodore Thomas ap Catesby Jones, in command of a squadron long cruising off California, occupied Monterey, California, on October 19, believing war had come. He discovered peace, withdrew, and saluted. A similar incident occurred a week later at San Diego.

1844 – Mexico. President Tyler deployed U.S. forces to protect Texas against Mexico, pending Senate approval of a treaty of annexation. (Later rejected.) He defended his action against a Senate resolution of inquiry.

1850-1859

1851 – Turkey. After a massacre of foreigners (including Americans) at Jaffa in January, a demonstration by the Mediterranean Squadron was ordered along the Turkish (Levant) coast.

1853 -- Nicaragua. March 11 to 13. US forces landed to protect American lives and interests during political disturbances

1854 – China. April 4 to June 15 to 17. American and English ships landed forces to protect American interests in and near Shanghai during Chinese civil strife.

1855 – Fiji Islands. September 12 to November 4. An American naval force landed to seek reparations for attacks on American residents and seamen.

1856 – China. October 22 to December 6. U.S. forces landed to protect American interests at Canton during hostilities between the British and the Chinese, and to avenge an assault upon an unarmed boat displaying the United States flag.

1858 – Fiji Islands. October 6 to 16. A marine expedition with the USS "Vandalia" enacted revenge on natives for the murder of two American citizens at Waya.

1859 – Mexico. Two hundred United States soldiers crossed the Rio Grande in pursuit of the Mexican nationalist Juan Cortina.

1860-1869

1860 -- Angola, Portuguese West Africa. - March 1. American residents at Kissembo called upon American and British ships to protect lives and property during problems with natives.

1864 -- Japan. - July 14 to August 3. Naval forces protected the United States Minister to Japan when he visited Yedo to negotiate concerning some American claims against Japan, and to make his negotiations easier by impressing the Japanese with American power.

1865-1876 Southern United States -- Reconstruction following the American Civil War. The South is divided into five Union occupation districts under the Reconstruction Act.

1866 -- Mexico. To protect American residents, General Sedgwick and 100 men in November obtained surrender of Matamoros, on the border State of Tamaulipas. After three days he was ordered by US Government to withdraw. His act was repudiated by the President.

1868 -- Uruguay. - February 7 and 8, 19 to 26. US forces protected foreign residents and the customhouse during an insurrection at Montevideo.

1870 -- Hawaiian Islands. - September 21. US forces placed the American flag at half-mast upon the death of Queen Kalama, when the American consul at Honolulu would not assume responsibility for so doing.

1873-96 -- Mexico. United States troops crossed the Mexican border repeatedly in pursuit of cattle and other thieves and other brigands.

1880-1889

1882 -- Egypt. - July 14 to 18. American forces landed to protect American interests during warfare between British and Egyptians and looting of the city of Alexandria by Arabs.

1888 -- Haiti. - December 20. A display of force persuaded the Haitian Government to give up an American steamer which had been seized on the charge of breach of blockade.

1890-1899

1890 -- Argentina. A naval party landed to protect US consulate and legation in Buenos Aires.

1891 -- Bering Strait. - July 2 to October 5. Naval forces sought to stop seal poaching.

1894 -- Brazil. - January. A display of naval force sought to protect American commerce and shipping at Rio de Janeiro during a Brazilian civil war.

1894-95 -- China. A naval vessel was beached and used as a fort at Newchwang for protection of American nationals.

1895-96 -- Venezuela. - Settlement of boundary dispute.

1898-99 -- Samoa. Second Samoan Civil War a conflict that reached a head in 1898 when Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States were locked in dispute over who should have control over the Samoan island chain.

1898-99 -- China. - November 5, 1898 to March 15, 1899. US forces provided a guard for the legation at Peking and the consulate at Tientsin during contest between the Dowager Empress and her son. The U.S. government declared the "insurgency" officially over in 1902, when the Filipino leadership generally accepted American rule. Skirmishes between government troops and armed groups lasted until 1913, and some historians consider these unofficial extensions of the war. [

1902 – Colombia (State of Panama). September 17 to November 18. The United States placed armed guards on all trains crossing the Isthmus to keep the railroad line open, and stationed ships on both sides of Panama to prevent the landing of Colombian troops.

1903 – Syria. September 7 to 12. US forces protected the American consulate in Beirut when a local Moslem uprising was feared.

1904 – Dominican Republic. January 2 to February 11. American and British naval forces established an area in which no fighting would be allowed and protected American interests in Puerto Plata and Sosua and Santo Domingo City during revolutionary fighting.

1904-05 -- Korea. - January 5, 1904, to November 11, 1905. A guard of Marines was sent to protect the American legation in Seoul during the Russo-Japanese War.

1910 -- Nicaragua. - May 19 to September 4, 1910. Occupation of Nicaragua US forces protected American interests at Bluefields.

1912 -- Honduras. A small force landed to prevent seizure by the government of an American-owned railroad at Puerto Cortes. The forces were withdrawn after the United States disapproved the action.

1912 -- China. - August 24 to 26, on Kentucky Island, and August 26 to 30 at Camp Nicholson. US forces protected Americans and American interests during the Xinhai Revolution.

1912-41 -- China. The disorders which began with the overthrow of the dynasty during Kuomintang rebellion in 1912, which were redirected by the invasion of China by Japan, led to demonstrations and landing parties for the protection of US interests in China continuously and at many points from 1912 on to 1941. The guard at Peking and along the route to the sea was maintained until 1941. In 1927, the United States had 5,670 troops ashore in China and 44 naval vessels in its waters. In 1933 the United States had 3,027 armed men ashore. The protective action was generally based on treaties with China concluded from 1858 to 1901. The specific order from the Secretary of the Navy to the invasion commander, Admiral William Deville Bundy, was to "protect American and foreign" interests. During the initial entrance into Haiti, the specific order from the Secretary of the Navy to the invasion commander, Admiral William Deville Bundy, was to "protect American and foreign" interests.

1917-18 -- World War I. On April 6, 1917, the United States declared war with Germany and on December 7, 1917, with Austria-Hungary. Entrance of the United States into the war was precipitated by Germany's submarine warfare against neutral shipping.

1918-20 -- Panama. US forces were used for police duty according to treaty stipulations, at Chiriqui, during election disturbances and subsequent unrest.

1919 -- Turkey. Marines from the USS Arizona were landed to guard the US Consulate during the Greek occupation of Constantinople.

1920 -- Guatemala. - April 9 to 27. US forces protected the American Legation and other American interests, such as the cable station, during a period of fighting between Unionists and the Government of Guatemala.

1922 -- Turkey. - September and October. A landing force was sent ashore with consent of both Greek and Turkish authorities, to protect American lives and property when the Turkish nationalists entered İzmir (Smyrna.

1924 -- China. - September. Marines were landed to protect Americans and other foreigners in Shanghai during Chinese factional hostilities.

1925 -- Panama. - October 12 to 23. Strikes and rent riots led to the landing of about 600 American troops to keep order and protect American interests.

1926-33 -- Nicaragua. - May 7 to June 5, 1926; August 27, 1926, to January 3, 1933. The coup d'état of General Chamorro aroused revolutionary activities leading to the landing of American marines to protect the interests of the United States. United States forces came and went intermittently until January 3, 1933.

1930-1939

1932 -- China. American forces were landed to protect American interests during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai.

1940-1945

1940 -- Newfoundland, Bermuda, St. Lucia, - Bahamas, Jamaica, Antigua, Trinidad, and British Guiana. Troops were sent to guard air and naval bases obtained by negotiation with Great Britain. These were sometimes called lend-lease bases.

1941 -- Iceland. Iceland was taken under the protection of the United States, with consent of its government, for strategic reasons.

1945-52 Occupation of Japan.

1945-46 Temporary reoccupation of the Philippines in preparation for independence.

1948 -- Berlin. Berlin Airlift After the Soviet Union established a land blockade of the US, British, and French sectors of Berlin on June 24, 1948, the United States and its allies airlifted supplies to Berlin until after the blockade was lifted in May 1949.

1950-55 -- Formosa (Taiwan). In June 1950 at the beginning of the Korean War, President Truman ordered the US Seventh Fleet to prevent Chinese Communist attacks upon Formosa and Chinese Nationalist operations against mainland China.

1956 -- Egypt. A marine battalion evacuated US nationals and other persons from Alexandria during the Suez crisis.

1962 -- Thailand. The Third Marine Expeditionary Unit landed on May 17, 1962 to support that country during the threat of Communist pressure from outside; by July 30, the 5,000 marines had been withdrawn.

1964 -- Congo (Zaire). The United States sent four transport planes to provide airlift for Congolese troops during a rebellion and to transport Belgian paratroopers to rescue foreigners.

1967 -- Congo (Zaire). The United States sent three military transport aircraft with crews to provide the Congo central government with logistical support during a revolt.

1975 -- Evacuation from Vietnam. On April 3, 1975, President Ford reported US naval vessels, helicopters, and Marines had been sent to assist in evacuation of refugees and US nationals from Vietnam.

1975 -- Cambodia. "Mayagüez" Incident. On May 15, 1975, President Ford reported he had ordered military forces to retake the SS "Mayaguez", a merchant vessel which was seized from Cambodian naval patrol boats in international waters and forced to proceed to a nearby island.

1978 -- Zaire (Congo). From May 19 through June 1978, the United States utilized military transport aircraft to provide logistical support to Belgian and French rescue operations in Zaire.

1981 --Libya. First Gulf of Sidra Incident On August 19, 1981, US planes based on the carrier USS Nimitz shot down two Libyan jets over the Gulf of Sidra after one of the Libyan jets had fired a heat-seeking missile. The United States periodically held freedom of navigation exercises in the Gulf of Sidra, claimed by Libya as territorial waters but considered international waters by the United States.

1982-1983 -- Lebanon. On September 29, 1982, President Reagan reported the deployment of 1200 marines to serve in a temporary multinational force to facilitate the restoration of Lebanese government sovereignty. On Sept. 29, 1983, Congress passed the Multinational Force in Lebanon Resolution (P.L. 98-119) authorizing the continued participation for eighteen months.

1983-89 -- Honduras. In July 1983 the United States undertook a series of exercises in Honduras that some believed might lead to conflict with Nicaragua. On March 25, 1986, unarmed US military helicopters and crewmen ferried Honduran troops to the Nicaraguan border to repel Nicaraguan troops.

1985 -- Italy. On October 10, 1985, US Navy pilots intercepted an Egyptian airliner and forced it to land in Sicily. The airliner was carrying the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro who had killed an American citizen during the hijacking.

1986 -- Bolivia. U.S. Army personnel and aircraft assisted Bolivia in anti-drug operations.]

1987-88 -- Operation Earnest Will was the U.S. military protection of Kuwaiti oil tankers from Iraqi and Iranian attacks in 1987 and 1988 during the Tanker War phase of the Iran-Iraq War. It was the largest naval convoy operation since World War II.

1987-88 -- Operation Prime Chance was a United States Special Operations Command operation intended to protect U.S. -flagged oil tankers from Iranian attack during the Iran-Iraq War. The operation took place roughly at the same time as Operation Earnest Will.

1988 -- Operation Praying Mantis was the April 18, 1988 action waged by U.S. naval forces in retaliation for the Iranian mining of the Persian Gulf and the subsequent damage to an American warship.

1988 -- Operation Golden Pheasant was an emergency deployment of U.S. troops to Honduras in 1988, as a result of threatening actions by the forces of the (then socialist) Nicaraguans.

1988 -- USS "Vincennes" shoot down of Iran Air Flight 655

1988 -- Panama. In mid-March and April 1988, during a period of instability in Panama and as the United States increased pressure on Panamanian head of state General Manuel Noriega to resign, the United States sent 1,000 troops to Panama, to "further safeguard the canal, US lives, property and interests in the area." The forces supplemented 10,000 US military personnel already in the Panama Canal Zone.

1989 -- Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru. Andean Initiative in War on Drugs. On September 15, 1989, President Bush announced that military and law enforcement assistance would be sent to help the Andean nations of Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru combat illicit drug producers and traffickers. By mid-September there were 50-100 US military advisers in Colombia in connection with transport and training in the use of military equipment, plus seven Special Forces teams of 2-12 persons to train troops in the three countries. Around 200 Panamanian civilians were reported killed. The Panamanian head of state, General Manuel Noriega, is captured and brought to the U.S.

1990 -- Liberia. On August 6, 1990, President Bush reported that a reinforced rifle company had been sent to provide additional security to the US Embassy in Monrovia, and that helicopter teams had evacuated US citizens from Liberia. "(See Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm)"

1991 -- Iraq. On May 17, 1991, President Bush stated that the Iraqi repression of the Kurdish people had necessitated a limited introduction of US forces into northern Iraq for emergency relief purposes.

1992-1996 -- Operation Provide Promise was a humanitarian relief operation in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Yugoslav Wars, from July 2, 1992, to January 9, 1996, which made it the longest running humanitarian airlift in history. [ [http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/provide_promise.htm Operation Provide Promise from www.globalsecurity.org] ]

1992 -- Kuwait. On August 3, 1992, the United States began a series of military exercises in Kuwait, following Iraqi refusal to recognize a new border drawn up by the United Nations and refusal to cooperate with UN inspection teams.

1993-Present -- Bosnia-Herzegovina.

1993 -- Macedonia. On July 9, 1993, President Clinton reported the deployment of 350 US soldiers to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to participate in the UN Protection Force to help maintain stability in the area of former Yugoslavia.

1995 -- Bosnia. NATO bombing of Bosnian Serbs.

1997 -- Albania. On March 13, 1997, US military forces were used to evacuate certain U.S. Government employees and private US citizens from Tirana, Albania. "(See also Operation Silver Wake)"

1997 -- Cambodia. On July 11, 1997, In an effort to ensure the security of American citizens in Cambodia during a period of domestic conflict there, a Task Force of about 550 US military personnel were deployed at Utapao Air Base in Thailand for possible evacuations.

1998 - 1999 Kenya and Tanzania. US military personnel were deployed to Nairobi, Kenya, to coordinate the medical and disaster assistance related to the bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

1999 - 2001 East Timor. East Timor Independence Limited number of US military forces deployed with UN to restore peace to East Timor.

2000 -- Yemen. On October 12, 2000, after the USS "Cole" attack in the port of Aden, Yemen, military personnel were deployed to Aden.

2002 -- Yemen. On November 3, 2002, an American MQ-1 Predator fired a Hellfire missile at a car in Yemen killing Qaed Senyan al-Harthi, an al-Qaeda leader thought to be responsible for the USS Cole bombing.]

2003 -- 2003 invasion of Iraq leading to the War in Iraq. March 20, 2003. The United States leads a coalition that includes Britain, Australia and Spain to invade Iraq with the stated goal of eliminating Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and undermining Saddam Hussein. ]

2004 -- 2004 Haïti rebellion occurs. The US sent first sent 55 combat equipped military personnel to augment the US Embassy security forces there and to protect American citizens and property in light. Later 200 additional US combat-equipped, military personnel were sent to prepare the way for a UN Multinational Interim Force.] [cite news
url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10924558/
title='Hardball with Chris Matthews' for January 18
author=Chris Mathews
date=January 19, 2006
publisher=MSNBC
accessdate=2007-10-04]

2006 -- Lebanon. US Marine Detachment, the 24th Marine Expeditionary UnitFact|date=December 2007, begins evacuation of US citizens willing to the leave the country in the face of a likely ground invasion by Israel and continued fighting between Hezbollah and the Israeli military. [cite news
url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/17/AR2006071701421.html
title=U.S. Prepares Huge Lebanon Evacuation
author=Josh White
publisher=Washington Post
date=July 18, 2006
page=A12
accessdate=2007-10-04] [cite web
url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/neo-lebanon-06.htm
title=Lebanon Non-combatant Evacuation Operation (NEO) 2006
publisher=globalsecurity.org
accessdate=2007-10-04]

2007 -- Somalia. Battle of Ras Kamboni. On January 8, 2007, while the conflict between the Islamic Courts Union and the Transitional Federal Government continues, an AC-130 gunship conducts an aerial strike on a suspected Al-Qaeda operative, along with other Islamist fighters, on Badmadow Island near Ras Kamboni in southern Somalia.Fact|date=October 2007

2008 -- South Ossetia, Georgia. Helped Georgia humanitarian aid [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/09/AR2008080900440.html?hpid=topnews U.S. Assails Russian 'Escalation' Of Crisis] . "Washington Post". 10 August, 2008.] , helped to transport Georgian forces from Iraq during the conflict. In the past, the US has provided training and weapons to Georgia.

Other interventions

In addition to the operations listed above, the US has a very active foreign policy that uses various methods to influence events in other countries. These methods include
*Weapons sales
*Military advice and training (e.g. through the School of the Americas)

American Indian battles

See also: Indian Wars, Indian massacres

*Frontier warfare during the American Revolution, which included::*Battle of Oriskany (1777):*Wyoming Valley Massacre (1778):*Cherry Valley Massacre (1778):*Sullivan Expedition (1779):*Battle of Blue Licks (1782)
*Northwest Indian War (1785–1795)
*Nickajack Expedition (1794)
*Sabine Expedition (1806)
*War of 1812 (western theatre), which included::*Tecumseh's War (1811-1813):*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)
*Black Hawk War (1832)
*Pawnee Indian Territory Campaign (1834)
*Creek War of 1836, aka Second Creek War or Creek Alabama Uprising (1835-1837)
*Missouri-Iowa Border War (1836)
*Southwestern Frontier (Sabine) disturbances (no fighting) (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)
*Dakota War of 1862 (1862)
*Bear River Massacre (1863)
*Colorado War (1863–1865)
*Kidder Massacre (1867) {See 2d Armored Cavalry Regiment-External Link}
*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 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)
*Battle of Leech Lake (1898)
*New Mexico Navajo War (1913)
*Colorado Paiute War (1915)
*AIM Takeovers (1969 - 75)fact|date=April 2008
*Seneca Indian Nation Standoff and New York State Thruway Blockade (1997)fact|date=April 2008

Relocation

*Indian removal (1830s)
**Trail of Tears (1835-1838)
*WWII-Era German American Internment (1942–1945)
*WWII-Era Japanese American Internment (1942–1946)
*WWII-Era Italian American Internment (1942–1943)

Armed insurrections and slave revolts

See also: Slave rebellion, Tax revolt

*Gloucester County, Virginia Slave Rebellion (1663)
*Bacon's Rebellion (1676)
*Leisler's Rebellion (1689-91)
*Stono Rebellion (1739)
*Pontiac's Rebellion (1763-1766)
*Black Boys Rebellion (1765, 1769)
*War of the Regulation (1764-1771)
*Pine Tree Riot (1771-2)
*Boston Tea Party (1773)
*Burning of the Peggy Stewart (1774)
*American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)
*Shays' Rebellion (1786)
*Whiskey Rebellion (1794)
*John Fries' Rebellion (1799-1800)
*Gabriel's Rebellion (1800)
*Malta War (1808–1809)
*Louisiana Territory Slave Rebellion (1811)
*Denmark Vesey's Uprising (1822)
*Nat Turner's slave rebellion (1831)
*Republic of Indian Stream (1832-1835)
*Buckshot War (~1837–~1838)
*Patriot War (1837–1838)
*"Amistad" Seizure (1839)
*Anti-Rent War (1839–~1844)
*"Creole" Incident (1841)
*Dorr Rebellion (1841–1842)
*Taos Revolt (1847)
*Utah War (1857-8)
*John Brown's Raid on Federal Armory at Harper's Ferry (1859)
*American Civil War (1861-1865)
*Green Corn Rebellion Oklahoma (1917)
*The Bonus March (1932)
*Jayuya Uprising - Puerto Rico (1950)
*Wounded Knee incident Wounded Knee, SD (1973)

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)
*San Elizario Salt War (Texas-Mexico borderlands 1877)
*Johnson County War (Wyoming, 1892)
*Pleasant Valley War (Arizona, 1886)
*Sheep Wars (Texas-New Mexico borderlands, ~1879–1900)
*Posey War (Utah, 1923)

Bloody local feuds

*Rowan County War (Kentucky, 1884–1887)
*Hatfield-McCoy feud (West Virginia-Kentucky, 1878–1891)
*

Bloodless boundary disputes

*Toledo War (1835, Michigan Territory-Ohio)
*Aroostook War (1838–1839, U.S.-Britain)
*Honey War (1839, Iowa Territory-Missouri)
*Oregon boundary dispute (1844–1846, U.S.-Britain)
*Pig War (1859, U.S.-Britain)
*Chamizal dispute (1895–1963, U.S.-Mexico)
*Alaska boundary dispute (1907, U.S.-Canada)
*Red River Bridge War (1932, Oklahoma-Texas)

Terror, paramilitary groups and guerrilla warfare

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)
*Red Shirts Hamburg Massacre (1876)
*Ku Klux Klan (1877)
*Knights of the White Camelia
*White League (1874–)
**Coushatta Massacre (1874)
**Colfax Riot (1874)

20th & 21st century

*Black Patch Tobacco Wars (1904-1914?) fact|date=April 2008
*Mass racial violence in the United States (1917; 1919; 1921; 1943; 1965; 1967)
*Wall Street bombing (1920)
*Capitol Attack (1954)
*Weathermen (1969–1976)
*U.S. Embassy Bombing (1983)
*Marine Barracks Bombing (1983)
*World Trade Center bombing (1993)fact|date=April 2008
*Oklahoma City bombing (1995)fact|date=April 2008
*U.S. Embassy Bombings (1998)
*USS "Cole" Bombing (2000)
*September 11, 2001 attacks (2001)
*Puerto Rico counter-guerrilla operations (1950s - present)

Labor-management disputes

*Great Railroad Strike (1877)
*Homestead Strike (1892)
*Pullman Strike (1894)
*Battle of Blair Mountain (1921)

tate and national secession attempts

*Westsylvania (1776)
*Green Mountain Boys (1777–1791) (Vermont voluntarily entered the Union in 1791)
*State of Franklin (1784 - 1790)
*Republic of West Florida (1810)
*Republic of Indian Stream (1832–1842)
*Free City of Tri-Insula (1861)
*Confederate States of America (1861–1865)
*State of Jefferson (1941)
*Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket secession attempt (1977)

Riots, Disorder and Natural Disasters

*Hurricane Andrew (1992)
*Hurricane Katrina (2005)
*Los Angeles riots (1992)
*Watts Riots Los Angeles, CA (1965)
*Detroit Race Riot (1943) Detroit, MI (1943)

Covert operations, coups, military advisers etc.

1980s

*1981 US sends military advisors to El Salvador. [cite web
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2147888.stm
title=El Salvador verdicts 'could open floodgates'
author=Tom gibb
publisher=BBC News
date=24 July, 2002
accessdate=2007-04-18]

2000s

*Damadola airstrike (Pakistan) (2006)

Miscellaneous

*Pennamite-Yankee War (1769–1784)
*Oconee War (1784)
*Burr conspiracy (~1804–~1807)
*"Chesapeake"-"Leopard" Affair (1807)
*"Little Belt" Affair (1811)
*Railroad War (1853–1855)
*Sinking of the "General Sherman" (1866)
*Fenian raids (1866)
*Brooks-Baxter War (1873)
*"Virginius" affair (1873)
*Canal Zone Riots (1964)
*USS "Liberty" incident (1967)
*Kent State massacre (1970)
*War on Drugs (~1972—)
*Iran hostage crisis (1979–1981)
*Iraqi attack on USS "Stark" (1987)
*Waco Siege (1993)

Latter-Day Saints

*Mormon War (1838)
*Utah War (1857-1858)

Republic of Texas

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

Notes

ee also

External links

Links referenced by specific items

*note label|Slave Traffic|Slave Traffic|Slave Traffic cite web
url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/slave.htm
title=African Slave Trade Patrol - 1820-1861
accessdate=2007-04-15
publisher=GlobalSecurity.org
*note label|Vandalia 1|Vandalia 1|Vandalia 1 cite web
url=http://www.historycentral.com/navy/MISC%202/vandalia.html
title=Vandalia
accessdate=2007-04-16
publisher=historycentral.com/navy
*note label|Vandalia 2|Vandalia 2|Vandalia 2 cite web
url=http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-v/vandla2.htm
title=USS Vandalia (1876-1889)
accessdate=2007-04-16
publisher=U.S. Department of the Navy - Naval Historical Center
*note label|1859 Mexico|1859 Mexico|1859 Mexico cite web
url=http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/cortina.htm
title=Juan Cortina (1824-1892)
accessdate=2007-04-16
publisher=www.pbs.org
*note label|Vietnam timeline|Vietnam timeline|Vietnam timeline cite web
url=http://www.landscaper.net/timelin.htm
title=Vietnam War Timeline
accessdate=2007-04-17
publisher=7th Bn, 15th Arty Org

Other links

* [http://www.krysstal.com/democracy_whyusa.html A site explaining U.S. foreign policy during the last 60 years]
* [http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/foabroad.htm 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
* [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~vanhornfamily/military.htm United States Military Campaigns, Conflicts, Expeditions and Wars] Compiled by Larry Van Horn, U.S. Navy Retired
* [http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people4/CJohnson/cjohnson-con0.html Conversations with History: Militarism and the American Empire] - With Chalmers Johnson, President of the Japan Policy Research Institute - RealVideo format.
* [http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/foabroad.htm 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
* [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~vanhornfamily/military.htm United States Military Campaigns, Conflicts, Expeditions and Wars] Compiled by Larry Van Horn, U.S. Navy Retired
* [http://www.zompist.com/latam.html US interventions in Latin America]
* [http://academic.evergreen.edu/g/grossmaz/interventions.html US Military Interventions Since 1890: From Wounded Knee to Iraq] - compiled by Geographer Zoltan Grossman
* [http://articles.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1374/is_4_62/ai_89431082 When foreign intervention is justified: Women under the Taliban]
* [http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/audiofiles.html#chomsky1 A Hemisphere of Our Own: U.S. Foreign Policy in Central America] - 2 Hours Talk Given by Noam Chomsky at UC Berkeley in 1984 - RealAudio format.
* Mellander, Gustavo A.; Nelly Maldonado Mellander (1999). Charles Edward Magoon: The Panama Years. Río Piedras, Puerto Rico: Editorial Plaza Mayor. ISBN 1563281554. OCLC 42970390.
* Mellander, Gustavo A. (1971). The United States in Panamanian Politics: The Intriguing Formative Years. Danville, Ill.: Interstate Publishers. OCLC 138568.
* [http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/crs/rl30172.htm Congressional Research Service report RL30172: Hundreds of instances of the employment of U.S. military forces abroad]

Further reading

Crandall, Russell (2006). "Gunboat democracy: US interventions in the Dominican Republic, Grenada and Panama" (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers).
*Allan Reed Millet & Peter Maslowski "For the Common Defense: A Military History of the United States." ISBN-13: 9780029215975 Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group, 1994.
*Bill Yenne "Indian Wars: The Campaign for the American West" ISBN 1-59416-016-3, Westholme, 2005