List of conflicts in the United States

For a list of wars before the creation of the United States, see List of conflicts in British America.

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List of conflicts in the United States is a timeline of events that includes Indian wars, battles, skirmishes, and other related items that have occurred in the United States's geographical area, including overseas territories since 1775.

18th century

• 1775–1783 American Revolutionary War
  • 1775
    • Battles of Lexington and Concord
    • Siege of Boston
    • Battle of Ticonderoga
    • Battle of Bunker Hill
  • 1776
    • Battle of Long Island
    • Battle of Harlem Heights
    • Battle of White Plains
    • Battle of Trenton
  • 1777
    • Battle of Princeton
    • Battle of Oriskany
    • Battle of Bennington
    • Battle of Brandywine Creek
    • Battle of Saratoga
    • Capture of Philadelphia
    • Battle of Germantown
  • 1778
    • Battle of Monmouth
    • Capture of Savannah
  • 1779
    • Battle of Baton Rouge
    • Battle of Vincennes
  • 1780
    • Siege of Charleston
    • Battle of Camden
    • Battle of King's Mountain
  • 1781
    

    Surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown
    • Battle of Cowpens
    • Battle of Guilford Court House
    • Siege of Ninety Six
    • Siege of Yorktown
• 1777–1794 Cherokee–American wars
• 1783–1788 Second Pennamite War between settlers from Connecticut and Pennsylvania in Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania
• 1785–1795 Northwest Indian War
• 1786–1787 Shays' Rebellion
• 1791–1794 Whiskey Rebellion
• 1798–1800 Quasi-War, an undeclared naval war with France

19th century

• 1804 Battle of Sitka Russian forces defeat the Tlingit in the last major armed conflict between Europeans and Alaska Natives.
• 1811 Tecumseh's War
• 1812–1815 War of 1812
  • 1812
    • Siege of Fort of Mackinac
    • First Battle of Sackett's Harbor
    • Battle of Brownstown
    • Battle of Maguaga
    • Battle of Fort Dearborn
    • Siege of Detroit
    • Siege of Fort Harrison
    • Siege of Fort Wayne
    • Battle of the Mississinewa
  • 1813
    • Battle of Frenchtown
    • Raid on Elizabethtown
    • Battle of Ogdensburg
    • Siege of Fort Meigs
    • Battle of Sackett's Harbor
    • Battle of Craney Island
    • Battle of Fort Stephenson
    • Battle of St. Michaels
    • Battle of Lake Erie
      

      The Battle of Lake Erie'
    • Capture of Fort Niagara
  • 1814
    • Raid on Fort Oswego
    • Siege of Prairie du Chien
    • Battle of Big Sandy Creek
    • Battle of Mackinac Island
    • Battle of Bladensburg
    • Burning of Washington
    • Raid on Alexandria
    • Battle of Caulk's Field
    • Battle of North Point
    • Battle of Lake Champlain
    • Battle of Baltimore
    • Battle of Pensacola (1812)
  • 1815
    • Battle of New Orleans
    • Battle of Fort Bowyer
• 1813–1814 Creek War
• 1817–1818 First Seminole War
• 1827 Winnebago War
• 1831 Nat Turner's Rebellion
• 1832 Black Hawk War
• 1835–1842 Second Seminole War
• 1835–1836 Toledo War (bloodless)
• 1838 Missouri Mormon War
• 1838–1839 Aroostook War
• 1839 Honey War (bloodless)
• 1841–1842 Dorr War
• 1845 Milwaukee Bridge War
• 1846–1848 Mexican–American War
  • 1846 Battle of Palo Alto
  • 1846 Battle of Resaca de la Palma
  • 1846 Occupation of Santa Fe
  • 1846 Battle of Monterey
  • 1846 Siege of Los Angeles
  • 1846 Battle of San Pasqual
  • 1846 Battle of Rio San Gabriel
• 1848–1855 Cayuse War
• 1854–1858 Bleeding Kansas
• 1855–1858 Third Seminole War
• 1857–1858 Utah War
• 1859 Pig War
• 1860 Pyramid Lake War
• 1861–1865 American Civil War
  • 1861
    • Battle of Fort Sumter
    • Battle of Philippi
    • Battle of Big Bethel
    • First Battle of Bull Run
    • Battle of Balls Bluff
  • 1862
    • Battle of Roanoke Island
    • Battle of Fort Donelson
    • Battle of Pea Ridge
    • Battle of Hampton Roads
    • Battle of Shiloh
    • Battle of Island Number 10
    • Battle of Fair Oaks
    • Battle of Memphis
    • Battle of Cross Keys
    • Battle of Port Republic
    • Seven Days' Battles
    • Battle of Baton Rouge
    • Battle of Cedar Mountain
    • Second Battle of Bull Run
    • Battle of Antietam
    • Battle of Fredericksburg
    • Battle of Stones River
  • 1863
    

    The Battle of Gettysburg
    • Battle of Chancellorsville
    • Siege of Vicksburg
    • Battle of Gettysburg
    • Battle of Chickamauga
    • Battle of Chattanooga
    • Battle of Knoxville
  • 1864
    • Battle of Olustee
    • Battle of the Wilderness
    • Battle of Spotsylvania
    • Battle of North Anna
    • Battle of Cold Harbor
    • Siege of Petersburg
    • Battle of the Crater
    • Battle of Mobile Bay
    • Siege of Atlanta
    • Battle of Franklin II
    • Battle of Nashville
  • 1865
    • Battle of Natural Bridge
    • Battle of Bentonville
    • Battle of Five Forks
    • Third Battle of Petersburg
    • Battle of Appomattox Court House
• 1862 Dakota War of 1862
• 1863–1865 Colorado War
  • 1864 Sand Creek Massacre
• 1866–1868 Red Cloud's War
• 1867–1875 Comanche War
• 1872–1873 Modoc War
• 1876–1877 Black Hills War
• 1877 Nez Percé War
• 1878 Lincoln County War
• 1882 Pleasant Valley War
• 1890–1891 Ghost Dance War
• 1889–1893 Johnson County War
• 1878–1900 Colorado Range War
• 1891–1893 Garza Revolution
• 1898 Spanish–American War
  • 1898 Battle of Manila Bay
  • 1898 Battle of Yauco
  • 1898 Battle of Guayama
  • 1898 Battle of Coamo
• 1899–1902 Philippine–American War
• 1899–1913 Moro Rebellion

20th century

• 1914–1918 World War I
  • 1914 A Japanese fleet captured the Mariana Islands from Germany without any loss of life. This is notable as the only land action fought during World War I that took place on what is now U.S. soil (Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands).
  • 1917 The U.S. enters the war.
  • 1918 German submarine SM U-156 attacks the port of Orleans, Massachusetts on July 21, sinking several small vessels, in an action which became known as the Bombardment of Orleans.
• 1915 Bandit War
• 1916 Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa leads a night raid on the New Mexico border town of Columbus.
• 1941–1945 World War II
  • 1941 Japanese surprise attack on American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
  • 1942 Bombardment of Fort Stevens, Oregon by Japanese submarine I-25
  • 1942 The Lookout Air Raids by a floatplane from Japanese submarine I-25; incendiary bombs were dropped but did not start a forest fire in Oregon
  • 1941–1945 Mostly during a period known as the "Second Happy Time", numerous American warships and merchant vessels sunk in American territorial waters by German U-boats.
  • 1942–1943 World War II Battle of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska.
  • 1944–1945 Fire balloon bombing of the US by Japanese balloon bombs: six civilians killed, minor damage inflicted.

See also

• American Theater (World War II)
• Second Happy Time
• Attacks on US mainland
• Indian massacre
• Indian Wars