List of conflicts in the United States
Includes Indian wars, battles, skirmishes, and other related items that have occurred in the United States's geographical area, including overseas territories since 1776.
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 Chickamauga 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 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
1890–1891 Ghost Dance War
1892 Johnson County War
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).
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.
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
Attacks on North America during World War II
Second Happy Time
Attacks on US mainland
Indian massacre
Indian Wars