List of wars involving the United States

Location: Eastern North America, Gibraltar, British India, Caribbean Sea, and the Atlantic

The Surrender of Lord Cornwallis, which began negotiations between Great Britain and the United States.

 

Iroquois

• Oneida
• Tuscarora

Watauga Association
Catawba
Lenape
Choctaw

 Netherlands

Mysore

 

Iroquois

• Onondaga
• Mohawk
• Cayuga
• Seneca

Cherokee

• Treaty of Paris
• Britain recognizes the independence of the United States of America
• End of the "First British Empire"^[1]

Location: Old Southwest

Location: Northwest Territory

A depiction of the Treaty of Greenville negotiations.

Great Britain

• British North America

• Treaty of Greenville
• British withdrawal
• American occupation of the Northwest Territory

Location: Western Pennsylvania

George Washington reviews troops before their march to suppress the rebellion in western Pennsylvania.

• Armed resistance eliminated.
• Minor tax evasion

Location: Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean, and the Mediterranean

U.S. Marines escorting French prisoners.

 

Co-belligerent:
 Great Britain

• Guadeloupe

Co-belligerent:
Spain

• Peaceful cessation of Franco-American alliance
• End of French privateer attacks on American shipping
• American neutrality and renunciation of claims against France

Location: Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Tripoli.

Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon at Derna, April 1805.

Sultanate of Morocco

• Peace treaty

Location: Territory of Orleans

Supported by:
Haiti

• Suppression and later trials

Location: Northwest River Ohio

• Peace treaty

Location: Eastern and Central North America

The Battle of New Orleans, the final major battle and most one-sided engagement of the war.

• British North America

Tecumseh's Confederacy
Spain (1814)

• Treaty of Ghent
• Status quo ante bellum with no boundary changes
• American invasions of British Canada repulsed
• British invasions of the United States repulsed
• American occupation of Pensacola in Spanish Florida
• Defeat of Tecumseh's Confederacy

Location: Southern United States

William Weatherford surrendering to Andrew Jackson after the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.

• Treaty of Fort Jackson

Location: Mediterranean Sea and the Barbary states.

Decatur's Squadron off Algiers.

• Peace treaty

Location: Pensacola, Florida

Barracks and tents at Fort Brooke near Tampa Bay.

Spanish Florida

Location: Texas

A Kiowa ledger drawing depicting a battle between Southern Plains Indians and the U.S. Army during the Red River War.

 

 Mexico

 Republic of Texas
 United States

Location: Missouri River

• The Arikara eventually settled with the Mandan and Hidatsa on the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota

Location: Off Greece, Aegean Sea

Greek pirate boats attacking the HMS Comet.

• Defeat of Greek pirates
• HMS Comet liberated by American forces
• Message of thanks issued to Louis Goldsborough from the British government

Location: Illinois and Michigan Territory

• Ho-Chunks cede lead mining region to the United States

Location: Aceh Sultanate

U.S. Infantry assaulting the Acehnese forts at Kuala Batu in 1832.

Location: Illinois and Michigan Territory

Native women and children fleeing the Battle of Bad Axe.

Location: Florida, United States

This view of a Seminole village shows the log cabins they lived in prior to the disruptions of the Second Seminole War.

• 3,800 Seminoles transported to the Indian Territory
• 300 remain in Everglades

Location: Great Lakes Basin

The Battle of the Windmill, Prescott

• Upper Canada

 United States

• Defeat of Hunters' Lodges
• Navy Island retaken
• Republic of Canada collapses
• Unification of Upper and Lower Canada into the Province of Canada and democratic reforms to lessen social unrest

Location: Aceh Sultanate

Location: Texas, New Mexico, California, and Mexico

U.S. Marines storming Capultepec Castle under a large American flag. Now victorious, it paved the way for the Fall of Mexico City.

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• Mexican Cession
• Mexican recognition of Texas and California (among other territories) as independent; end of conflict between Mexico and Texas

Location: Oregon

Location: Southwestern United States

• Apaches moved to reservations

Location: Washington

• Indians relocated to Siletz, Grande Ronde, and Coast Reservations

Location: Fiji

Location: Rogue Valley

• Indians relocated to Siletz, Grand Ronde, and Coast Reservations

Location: Pensacola, Florida

A U.S. Marine boat expedition searching the Everglades during the Second Seminole War.

Location: Washington Territory

Seattleites evacuate to the town blockhouse as USS Decatur opens fire on advancing tribal forces.

• Peace treaty

Location: China

Palikao's bridge, on the evening of the battle, by Émile Bayard

• Treaties of Tientsin
• Southern Kowloon ceded to the United Kingdom

Location: Utah Territory and Wyoming

• Resolution through negotiation
• Brigham Young replaced as governor of the territory
• Full amnesty for charges of sedition and treason issued to the citizens of Utah Territory by President James Buchanan on the condition that they accept American Federal authority

Location: New Mexico

Fort Defiance

• Long Walk of the Navajo
• Navajos moved to reservations

Location: Fiji

Location: West Virginia

Harper's Weekly illustration of U.S. Marines attacking John Brown's "Fort" Teresa Baine

Location: Texas and Mexico

Confederate States

Location: Pyramid Lake, Nevada

Location: United States

The Battle of Antietam, by Kurz & Allison.

• Territorial integrity preserved
• Dissolution of the Confederacy
• Slavery abolished
• Lincoln assassinated
• Beginning of the Reconstruction Era

Location: Arizona

Location: Minnesota and Dakota

The Siege of New Ulm, Minnesota on August 19, 1862

Location: Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska

• Military and congressional hearings against John Chivington

Location: Kanmon Straits

Capture of a Choshu battery at Shimonoseki by British sailors and marines.

• Chōshū pays an indemnity of $3,000,000.

Locations: Oregon, Nevada, California, and Idaho

Location: Powder River State

Location: Powder River State

• Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868)
• Legal control of Powder River Country ceded to Native Americans
• Creation of the Great Sioux Reservation (including the Black Hills)

Location: Southern Formosa

• Formosan retreat
• American withdrawal

Location: Western United States

Location: Ganghwado

American forces after capturing the Deokjin Fort during the Battle of Ganghwa in 1871.

• United States-Korea Treaty of 1882

Location: California and Oregon

Engraving of soldiers recovering the bodies of the slain May 3, 1873.

Location: Texas

• End to the Texas-Indian Wars

Location: Texas and Mexico

Texan soldiers.

• Cattle returned to Texas

Location: Montana, Dakota and Wyoming

Custer's last stand at Little Bighorn.

• Legal control of Powder River Country ceded to the United States

Location: Texas and Oklahoma

Location: Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana

Location: Texas

• Uprising suppressed

Location: Idaho, Oregon, and Wyoming

Location: Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and Montana

Location: Idaho

Location: Mexico

Location: Colorado

Location: South Dakota

Mass grave for the dead Lakota after the conflict at Wounded Knee Creek.

Location: Texas and Mexico

Location: Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Cruiser Detroit in the Guanabara Bay during the revolt

• End of rebel blockade
• Rio de Janeiro reopened to American commerce

Location: Arizona and Mexico

10th Cavalry soldiers holding Yaqui prisoners at their camp in Bear Valley, January 9, 1918.

Location: Samoa

• Allies and Rebels compromise for peace Tripartite Convention
• United States acquires American Samoa
• United Kingdom withdraws claim in exchange for concessions in the Solomon Islands
• Germany acquires German Samoa
• Mata'afa Iosefo becomes paramount chief of Samoa

Location: Cuba, Puerto Rico, Philippines and Guam

Battle of Manila Bay painting.

• Cuba
• Guam
• Philippines
• Puerto Rico

• Treaty of Paris
• Protectorate over Cuba
• Collapse of the Spanish Empire
• Generation of '98 among Spanish intellectuals

Location: Philippines

A group of Filipino combatants are photographed just as they lay down their weapons prior to their surrender.

• Occupation of the Philippines
• Dissolution of the First Philippine Republic

Philippines

Aftermath of the First Battle of Bud Dajo.

Location: China

The fall of Tianjin.

• The rebellion was suppressed
• Signing of the Boxer Protocol
• Provisions for foreign troops to be stationed in Beijing

Location: Oklahoma

Creek prisoners of war.

Location: Mexico–United States border

• Seditionist insurgency suppressed
• Battles between Mexican and American forces ceased in 1919 after the American/Carrancista victory in the Battle of Ciudad Juárez^[2]
• Pancho Villa's troops no longer an effective fighting force^[3]

Location: Cuba

USS Mississippi in Cuba

• Rebellion suppressed
• Dissolution of the PIC

Location: Nicaragua

Occupation of Nicaragua

• Nicaragua occupied until 1933.
• Great Depression marked US withdrawal in 1933.
• Change of regime in Nicaragua.

Location: Utah and Colorado

Prisoners of the Bluff War in Thompson, Utah, waiting to board a train for their trial in Salt Lake City.

Location: Haiti

Occupation of Haiti

• Haiti occupied

Location: Cuba

• Uprising quelled.

Location: Dominican Republic

Occupation of the Dominican Republic.

• Dominican Republic occupied

Location: Europe, Africa, Asia, Middle East, the Pacific Islands, and coast of North and South America

Two US troops pass by dead German soldiers on a battlefield.

• End of the German, Russian, Ottoman, and Austro-Hungarian empires
• Formation of new countries in Europe and the Middle East
• Transfer of German colonies and regions of the former Ottoman Empire to other powers
• Establishment of the League of Nations

Location: Russia, Mongolia, and Iran

US troops march through Russia before the Battle of Romanovka.

•  United Kingdom
•  Canada
•  Australia
•  India

 Japan
 Czechoslovakia
 Greece
 Poland
 United States
France
 Romania
 Serbia
 Italy
China

• Allied withdrawal from Russia
• Bolshevik victory over White Army
• Victory for pro-independence movements in Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland

Location: Utah

Ute and Paiute prisoners of war.

Location: Europe, Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Southeast Asia, Middle East, Mediterranean, North Africa, North and South America

US troops in Okinawa.

• Collapse of the Third Reich
• Fall of Japanese and Italian Empires
• Creation of the United Nations
• Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers
• Beginning of the Cold War

Location: Korea

US and South Korean troops in combat.

• North Korean invasions of South Korea repelled
• Subsequent United Nations invasion of North Korea repelled
• Subsequent Chinese-North Korean-Soviet invasion of South Korea repelled
• Korean Armistice Agreement. Although this ended the actual fighting in the Korean Peninsula, the war is not (technically) over because a peace treaty was never signed

Location: Lebanon

US Marine sits in a foxhole and points his machine gun toward Beirut.

• INM
• LCP
• PSP

• US-Lebanese occupation of the port and international airport of Beirut
• Withdrawal of US forces

Location: Cuba

• Invasion of Cuba suppressed
• Failed Castro assassination

Location: Democratic Republic of the Congo

•  Cuba
• Tanganyika^a
•  Soviet Union
•  China

• Rebellion defeated.

Location: Dominican Republic

US soldiers arrive in the Dominican Republic.

• Juan Bosch excluded from Presidency
• Election of Joaquín Balaguer.

Location: Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos

US soldiers gathered around dead Viet Cong troops.

• Withdrawal of American forces from Indochina
• North Vietnamese victory over South Vietnam
• Dissolution of the Republic of Vietnam
• Communist governments take power in South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
• South Vietnam is annexed by North Vietnam

Location: Thailand

weapons and advisors:
 North Vietnam (until 1976)
 Vietnam (from 1976)
 Soviet Union
People Republic of China (1971–1978)
Pathet Lao^[4]
[5]
Malayan Communist Party
Khmer Rouge (until 1978)^[4]
[5]
 North Korea^[5]

• Defeat of communist insurgents.

Location: Zaire
(present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Location: Lebanon

USS New Jersey fires a salvo from her 16-inch guns during a 1984 deployment off Beirut.

• Multinational forces supervise withdrawal of Palestine Liberation Organization^[6]

Location: Grenada

American soldiers in mortar positions in Grenada.

 

 Barbados
 Jamaica
Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States

• Military dictatorship of Hudson Austin deposed
• Defeat of Cuban military presence
• Restoration of Constitutional Government

Location: Persian Gulf

Iranian frigate Sahand after being attacked by U.S. aircraft.

• Successful operations against Iran during the
  Iran-Iraq war

Location: Panama

U.S. troops prepare to take a neighborhood in Panama City, December 1989.

• Dictator Manuel Noriega deposed.

Location: Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Israel

Aftermath of a bombed US position.

• Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait; Emir Jaber III restored
• Sanctions against Iraq

Location: Somalia

American soldiers on patrol in Somalia.

• UN humanitarian mandate fulfilled, saving around 100,000 lives.
• Attempts to capture SNA leader Mohamed Farrah Aidid failed.
• Withdrawal of American forces after the Battle of Mogadishu.
• Civil war is ongoing.

Location: Haiti

US troops arrive in Haiti.

• Reinstatement of Jean-Bertrand Aristide as president of Haiti.

Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina

UN forces deployed in Bosnia.

Herzeg-Bosnia
 Croatia

 United States
 Belgium
 Canada
 Denmark
 France
 Germany
 Italy
 Luxembourg
 Netherlands
 Norway
 Portugal
 Spain
 Turkey
 United Kingdom

• Dayton Accords
• Internal partition of Bosnia and Herzegovina according to the Dayton Accords
• Deployment of NATO-led IFOR to oversee the peace agreement
• Massive civilian casualties for the Bosniak ethnic group

Location: Serbia

Bombing in Kosovo.

• Kumanovo Treaty
• Yugoslav security forces pull out of Kosovo
• KLA veterans join the UÇPMB, starting the Preševo insurgency

Location: Afghanistan

U.S. troops of India Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment during their clearing of the Sangin District.

 

 

 

 Azerbaijan
 Germany
 Denmark
 Italy
 France
 Canada
 Australia
 New Zealand
 El Salvador
 Armenia
 Georgia
 Norway
 Sweden
 Poland
 Estonia
 Romania
 Turkey
 Bulgaria
 Hungary
 Luxembourg
 Portugal
 Jordan
 Albania
 Iceland
Northern Alliance Supported by:
 India

• Islamic Jihad Union
• Haqqani network

Allied groups

• HIG
• al-Qaeda
• IJU^[7]
• IMU

Taliban splinter groups

• Fidai Mahaz

2001 invasion:
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

• Taliban

al-Qaeda

• 055 Brigade

• American-led coalition invasion and occupation of Afghanistan
• Destruction of al-Qaeda training camps
• Fall of the Taliban government
• Establishment of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan under the Karzai administration
• Start of Taliban insurgency
• Death of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan
• Commencement of war's 2015–present phase

Location: Iraq

U.S. troops of L Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment search a house for insurgents, weapons caches and explosives during a patrol.

 

 

 

 United Kingdom
 South Korea
 Italy
 Poland
 Australia
 Georgia
 Ukraine
 Estonia
 Netherlands
 Spain
 Denmark
MNF–I

Ba'athist Iraq

• Invasion and occupation of Iraq
• Overthrow of Ba'ath Party government and execution of Saddam Hussein
• Iraqi insurgency, emergence of al-Qaeda in Iraq, and civil war^[8]
• Subsequent depletion of al-Qaeda in Iraq,^[9][10] improvements in public security,^[11] Iraqi insurgency persists^[10]
• Establishment of democratic elections and formation of new Shia-led government
• U.S.–Iraq Status of Forces Agreement
• Withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq
• Increased Iranian influence in Iraq^{[12][13][14][15]}
• Escalation of sectarian insurgency after U.S. withdrawal and spillover with the Syrian Civil War^[10]
• Rise of the Islamic State of Iraq, the successor of al-Qaeda in Iraq^[16]

Location: Pakistan

Airstrike on insurgent forces in Pakistan.

 

 Pakistan

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

• Drone strikes being conducted by the United States
• Jundallah, Tehreek-e-Khilafat, and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan join ISIL

Location: Libya

US vessels launch missiles in support of the Libyan Civil War.

 NATO

•  Belgium
•  Bulgaria
•  Canada
•  Denmark
•  France
•  Greece
•  Italy
•  Netherlands
•  Norway
•  Romania
•  Spain
•  Turkey
•  United Kingdom
•  United States

 Jordan
 Qatar
 Sweden
 United Arab Emirates

• Overthrow of Gaddafi government and Death of Muammar Gaddafi
• Assumption of interim control by National Transitional Council (NTC)
• Diplomatic recognition of NTC as sole governing authority for Libya by 105 countries, UN, EU, AL and AU
• Post-civil war violence in Libya, leading to another civil war in 2014^[17]

Location: Iraq, Syria, Libya and Nigeria

US airstrikes on ISIL positions in Syria.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Kurdistan

 Syria
 Iran
 Russia

 

al-Nusra Front
Khorasan

Ahrar ash-Sham

• Airstrikes on ISIL and al-Qaeda positions in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Nigeria and Afghanistan
• Multinational humanitarian efforts
• Arming and support for local ground forces
• Hundreds of thousands of civilians in Iraq and Syria flee their homes sparking a refugee crisis
• Thousands of civilians are executed by ISIL forces
• ISIL loses up to 30% of its territory in Iraq^[18]
• ISIL controls around 50% of Syria by late May 2015^[19][20]
• Emergence of independently-governed Kurdish regions

• Afghan National Security Forces

Allied militias

• Jamiat-e Islami
• Junbish-i-Milli
• Hezbe Wahdat

Coalition:

Resolute Support Mission (2015–present)

•  Australia
•  Croatia
•  Czech Republic
•  Georgia (IPAP)
•  Germany
•  Italy
•  Romania
•  Spain
•  Turkey
•  United Kingdom
•  United States

• Haqqani network
• Islamic Jihad Union

Supported by:
 Pakistan

• Inter-Services Intelligence
  (Denied by Pakistan)

Allied groups

• Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin
• al-Qaeda
• Islamic Jihad Union

Taliban splinter groups

• Dadullah Front
• Fidai Mahaz

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

• Wilayat Khorasan

• Security and control of Afghanistan taken over by Afghan security forces
• NATO implements a support mission
• Continued counter-terror operations being conducted by NATO forces
• ISIL establishes presence in Afghanistan and begins to recruit fighters^[21]
• Failed 2015 Taliban resurgence attempt in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan^[22]
• U.S. halts withdrawal and prolongs presence in Afghanistan^[23]