List of wars involving the United States
This is a list of wars involving the United States of America.[1]
- USA defeat
- USA victory
- Another result (e.g. a treaty or peace without a clear result, status quo ante bellum, result of civil or internal conflict, result unknown or indecisive)
- Ongoing conflict
18th-century wars
change19th-century wars
changeConflict | Allies | Belligerent | Result for the United States and its Allies | Presidents of the United States |
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First Barbary War (1801–1805) Part of the Barbary Wars Location: Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Tripoli |
United States[2] Sweden[2] Kingdom of Sicily[2] Malta Protectorate[2] Kingdom of Portugal[2] Sultanate of Morocco[2] |
Ottoman Tripolitania[3] Sultanate of Morocco[3] |
US-allied victory | Thomas Jefferson |
Tecumseh's War (1810–1813) Part of the American Indian Wars and the War of 1812 Location: Northwest River Ohio |
United States | Tecumseh's Confederacy
List |
US victory | James Madison |
War of 1812 (1812–1815) Location: Eastern and Central North America |
United States Choctaw Nation Cherokee Nation Creek Allies |
United Kingdom
List |
Inconclusive/Other Result
| |
Creek War (1813–1814) Part of the American Indian Wars and the War of 1812 Location: Southern United States |
United States Lower Creeks Cherokee Nation Choctaw Nation |
Red Stick Creek | US-allied victory | |
Second Barbary War (1815) Part of the Barbary Wars Location: Mediterranean Sea and the Barbary States |
United States | Deylik of Algiers |
US victory | |
First Seminole War (1817–1818) Part of the Seminole Wars and the American Indian Wars Location: Pensacola, Spanish Florida |
United States | Seminole
|
US victory
|
James Monroe |
Arikara War (1823) Part of the American Indian Wars Location: Missouri River |
United States | Arikara | Inconclusive/Other Result
| |
Winnebago War (1827) Part of the American Indian Wars Location: Illinois and Michigan Territory |
United States Choctaw Nation |
Prairie La Crosse Ho-Chunks with a few allies |
US-allied victory
|
John Quincy Adams |
Black Hawk War (1832) Part of the American Indian Wars Location: Illinois and Michigan Territory |
United States Ho-Chunk Menominee Dakota Potawatomi |
Black Hawk's British Band Ho-Chunk and Potawatomi allies |
US-allied victory
|
Andrew Jackson |
Texas Revolution (1835–1836) Location: Texas |
Republic of Texas
|
Mexican Republic | Texan victory
|
Martin Van Buren |
Second Seminole War (1835–1842) Part of the Seminole Wars and the American Indian Wars Location: Florida, United States |
United States | Seminole | US victory
|
Martin Van Buren (March 4, 1837 – March 4, 1841)
William Henry Harrison(March 4, 1841 – April 4, 1841) John Tyler (April 4, 1841 –March 4, 1845) |
Aroostook War (1838–1839) Location: Maine–New Brunswick border |
United States | United Kingdom British America |
Inconclusive/Other Result | Martin Van Buren |
Mexican–American War (1846–1848) Location: Texas, New Mexico, California and Mexico |
United States California Republic |
Mexico | US-allied victory
|
James K. Polk |
Cayuse War (1847–1855) Part of the American Indian Wars Location: Oregon |
United States | Cayuse | US victory
|
James K. Polk (March 4, 1845 – March 4, 1849)
Zachary Taylor (March 4, 1849 – July 9, 1850) Millard Fillmore (July 9, 1850 – March 4, 1853) Franklin Pierce (March 4, 1853 – March 4, 1857) |
Apache Wars (1849–1924) Part of the Texas–Indian wars and the American Indian Wars Location: Southwestern United States |
United States | Apache Ute Yavapai |
US victory
|
James K. Polk (March 4, 1845 – March 4, 1849)
Zachary Taylor (March 4, 1849 – July 9, 1850) Millard Fillmore (July 9, 1850 – March 4, 1853) Franklin Pierce (March 4, 1853 – March 4, 1857) James Buchanan (March 4, 1857 – March 4, 1861) Abraham Lincoln (March 4, 1861 – April 15, 1865) Andrew Johnson (April 15, 1865 – March 4, 1869) Ulysses S. Grant (March 4, 1869 – March 4, 1877) Rutherford B. Hayes (March 4, 1877 – March 4, 1881) James A. Garfield (March 4, 1881 – September 19, 1881) Chester A. Arthur (September 19, 1881 – March 4, 1885) Grover Cleveland (March 4, 1885 – March 4, 1889) Benjamin Harrison (March 4, 1889 – March 4, 1893) Grover Cleveland (March 4, 1893 – March 4, 1897) William McKinley (March 4, 1897 – September 14, 1901) Theodore Roosevelt (September 14, 1901 – March 4, 1909) William Howard Taft (March 4, 1909 – March 4, 1913) Woodrow Wilson (March 4, 1913 – March 4, 1921) Warren G. Harding (March 4, 1921 – August 2, 1923) Calvin Coolidge (August 2, 1923 – March 4, 1929) |
Bleeding Kansas (1854–1861) Location: Kansas and Missouri |
Anti-slavery settlers (Free-Staters) |
Pro-slavery settlers (Border Ruffians) | Free-Stater victory.
|
Franklin Pierce (March 4, 1853 – March 4, 1857)
James Buchanan (March 4, 1857 – March 4, 1861) |
Puget Sound War (1855–1856) Part of the American Indian Wars Location: Washington |
United States Snoqualmie |
Nisqually Muckleshoot Puyallup Klickitat Haida Tlingit |
US victory | Franklin Pierce |
Rogue River Wars (1855–1856) Location: Rogue Valley |
United States | Rogue River people | US victory
| |
Third Seminole War (1855–1858) Part of the Seminole Wars and the American Indian Wars Location: Pensacola, Florida |
United States | Seminole | US victory
|
Franklin Pierce (March 4, 1853 – March 4, 1857)
James Buchanan (March 4, 1857 – March 4, 1861) |
Yakima War (1855–1858) Part of the American Indian Wars Location: Washington Territory |
United States Snoqualmie |
Yakama Walla Walla tribe Umatilla tribe Nez Perce tribe Cayuse tribe |
US victory | Franklin Pierce (March 4, 1853 – March 4, 1857)
James Buchanan (March 4, 1857 – March 4, 1861) |
Second Opium War (1856–1859) Part of the Opium Wars Location: China |
British Empire French Empire United States |
China | US victory
|
Franklin Pierce (March 4, 1853 – March 4, 1857)
James Buchanan (March 4, 1857 – March 4, 1861) |
Utah War (1857–1858) Part of the Mormon wars Location: Utah Territory and Wyoming |
United States | Deseret/Utah Mormons (Nauvoo Legion) | Inconclusive/Other Result
|
Franklin Pierce (March 4, 1853 – March 4, 1857)
James Buchanan (March 4, 1857 – March 4, 1861) |
Navajo Wars (1858–1866) Part of the American Indian Wars Location: New Mexico |
United States | Navajo Nation | US victory
|
Franklin Pierce (March 4, 1853 – March 4, 1857)
James Buchanan (March 4, 1857 – March 4, 1861) Abraham Lincoln (March 4, 1861 – April 15, 1865) |
Pig War (1859) Location: San Juan Islands |
United States | United Kingdom | Inconclusive
|
James Buchanan |
John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry (1859) Part of pre-Civil War conflicts Location: West Virginia |
United States | Abolitionist Insurgents | US victory | James Buchanan |
First and Second Cortina War (1859–1861) Location: Texas and Mexico |
United States
|
Cortinista bandits | US-allied victory | James Buchanan |
Paiute War (1860) Part of the American Indian Wars Location: Pyramid Lake, Nevada |
United States | Paiute Shoshone Bannock |
US victory | James Buchanan |
American Civil War (1861–1865) Location: Southern United States, Indian Territory, Northeastern United States, Western United States, Atlantic Ocean |
United States Indian Home Guard Seminole Nation (Western) (most)[6] Muskogee Nation (part)[7] |
Confederate States Cherokee Nation Choctaw Nation Catawba Chickasaw Nation (part) Muskogee Nation (part) Seminole Nation (Florida) Seminole Nation (Western) (part) Comanche Nation (part) |
US victory
|
|
Yavapai Wars (1861–1875) Part of the American Indian Wars Location: Arizona |
United States | Yavapai Apache Yuma Mohave |
US victory |
Abraham Lincoln (March 4, 1861 – April 15, 1865) Andrew Johnson (April 15, 1865 – March 4, 1869) Ulysses S. Grant (March 4, 1869 – March 4, 1877) |
Dakota War of 1862 (1862) Part of the American Indian Wars Location: Minnesota and Dakota |
United States | Dakota Sioux | US victory | Abraham Lincoln |
Colorado War (1863–1865) Part of the American Indian Wars Location: Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska |
United States | Cheyenne Arapaho Sioux |
Inconclusive/Other Result
| |
Snake War (1864–1868) Part of the American Indian Wars Locations: Oregon, Nevada, California, and Idaho |
United States | Paiute Bannock Shoshone |
US victory | Abraham Lincoln (March 4, 1861 – April 15, 1865)
Andrew Johnson (April 15, 1865 – March 4, 1869) |
Powder River War (1865) Part of the American Indian Wars Location: Powder River State |
United States | Sioux Cheyenne Arapaho |
Inconclusive | |
Red Cloud's War (1866–1868) Part of the American Indian Wars Location: Powder River State |
United States Crow Nation |
Lakota Cheyenne Arapaho |
Lakota-allied victory
| |
Comanche Campaign (1867–1875) Part of the American Indian Wars Location: Western United States |
United States | Cheyenne Arapaho Comanche Kiowa |
US victory | Andrew Johnson (April 15, 1865 – March 4, 1869)
Ulysses S. Grant (March 4, 1869 – March 4, 1877) |
United States expedition to Korea
(1871) Location: Ganghwa Island |
United States | Joseon dynasty | Inconclusive/Other Result
American military victory American diplomatic failure
|
Ulysses S. Grant |
Modoc War (1872–1873) Part of the American Indian Wars Location: California and Oregon |
United States | Modoc | US victory | |
Red River War (1874–1875) Part of the American Indian Wars Location: Texas |
United States | Cheyenne Arapaho Comanche Kiowa |
US victory
| |
Las Cuevas War (1875) Location: Texas and Mexico |
United States | Mexican bandits | US victory
| |
Great Sioux War of 1876 (1876–1877) Part of the American Indian Wars Location: Montana, Dakota and Wyoming |
United States | Lakota Dakota Sioux Northern Cheyenne Arapaho |
US victory
| |
Buffalo Hunters' War (1876–1877) Part of the American Indian Wars Location: Texas and Oklahoma |
United States | Comanche Apache |
US victory | |
Nez Perce War (1877) Part of the American Indian Wars Location: Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana |
United States | Nez Perce Palouse |
US victory | Rutherford B. Hayes |
Bannock War (1878) Part of the American Indian Wars Location: Idaho, Oregon, and Wyoming |
United States | Bannock Shoshone Paiute |
US victory | |
Cheyenne War (1878–1879) Part of the American Indian Wars Location: Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and Montana |
United States | Cheyenne | US victory | |
Sheepeater Indian War (1879) Part of the American Indian Wars Location: Idaho |
United States | Shoshone | US victory | |
Victorio's War (1879–1880) Part of the American Indian Wars Location: Mexico |
United States Mexico |
Apache | US-allied victory | |
White River War (1879) Part of the American Indian Wars Location: Colorado |
United States | Ute | US victory | |
Crow War (1887) Part of the American Indian Wars Location: Montana |
United States | Crow people | US victory | Grover Cleveland |
Pine Ridge Campaign (1890–1891) Part of the American Indian Wars Location: South Dakota |
United States | Sioux | US victory | Benjamin Harrison |
Garza War (1891–1893) Location: Texas and Mexico |
Mexico United States |
Garzistas | US-allied victory | |
Yaqui Wars (1896–1918) Part of the American Indian Wars Location: Arizona and Mexico |
United States Mexico |
Yaqui Pima Opata |
US-allied victory | Grover Cleveland (March 4, 1893 – March 4, 1897)
|
Second Samoan Civil War (1898–1899) Location: Samoa |
Samoa United States |
Mataafans German Empire |
Inconclusive/Other Result
|
William McKinley |
Spanish–American War (1898) Location: Cuba, Puerto Rico, Philippines and Guam |
United States Cuban Revolutionaries Filipino Revolutionaries |
Spain | US-allied victory
|
William McKinley |
Philippine–American War (1899–1902) Location: Philippines |
1899–1902 United States 1902-1906 |
1899–1902 Philippine Republic Limited Foreign Support: 1902-1906 |
US victory
|
William McKinley (March 4, 1897 – September 14, 1901)
|
Moro Rebellion (1899–1913) Location: Philippines |
United States | Moro Remnants of the Sulu Sultanate |
US victory
|
William McKinley (March 4, 1897 – September 14, 1901)
|
Boxer Rebellion (1899–1901) Location: China |
British Empire
Russian Empire |
Boxers China (from 1900) |
US-allied victory
|
William McKinley |
Vietnam War (1955–1975) Location: Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia |
North Vietnam | United States South Vietnam South Korea Philippines Thailand Australia New Zealand Khmer Republic Kingdom of Laos Brazil United Kingdom Mexico |
Vietnam victory
|
Richard Nixon |
Related pages
changeNotes
change- ↑ These numbers are gathered from a combination of surviving muster rolls and veteran applications for land grants. It is likely that the statistics on the Texan army size in both 1835 and 1836 underestimate the number of Tejanos who served in the army. American volunteers who returned to the U.S. without claiming land are also undercounted. Lack (1992), p. 113.
References
change- ↑ Kelly, Martin (4 November 2020). "American Involvement in Wars From Colonial Times to the Present". ThoughtCo. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "Tripolitan War | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved May 8, 2019.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 r2WPadmin. "First Barbary War". American History Central. Retrieved May 8, 2019.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ Serial 89, 18th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Document No. 1, p. 95
- ↑ Lack (1992), pp. 122–3.
- ↑ "The Indians". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 12, 1884.
- ↑ "Union and Confederate Indians in the Civil War". civilwarhome.com. 2002-02-16. Archived from the original on February 13, 2021. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
Other websites
change- Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research (HIIK)
- Conflict Barometer – Describes recent trends in conflict development, escalations, and settlements
- A Continent Divided: The U.S.-Mexico War[permanent dead link], Center for Greater Southwestern Studies, the University of Texas at Arlington
- Timeline of wars involving the United States, Histropedia
- U.S. Periods of War and Dates of Recent Conflicts, Congressional Research Service