List of conflicts in the Americas
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[edit] List of conflicts in North America
[edit] Before the sixteenth century
- 1006 Norseman versus Beothuk along the coast of Newfoundland
[edit] Sixteenth century
- 1520 Aztecs force Cortés from Tenochtitlan
- 1521 Cortés captures the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan
- 1565 Massacre of French colonists from Fort Caroline by Spanish soldiers from St. Augustine
[edit] Seventeenth century
- through the 17th century war between the Huron and the Iroquois
- 1640 French and Iroquois Wars
- 1689-1697 King William's War
[edit] Eighteenth century
- 1702-1713 Queen Anne's War
- 1715-1717 Yamasee War
- 1744-1748 King George's War
- 1754-1763 The French and Indian War
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- Battle of Jumonville Glen (May 28, 1754)
- Battle of Fort Necessity, aka the Battle of Great Meadows (July 3, 1754)
- Battle of Fort Beauséjour (June 16, 1755)
- Braddock Expedition (Battle of the Monongahela aka Battle of the Wilderness) (July 9, 1755)
- Battle of Lake George (1755)
- Battle of Great Cacapon (April 18, 1756)
- Battle of Fort Oswego (August, 1756)
- Kittanning Expedition (climax about September 8, 1756)
- Battle on Snowshoes (January 21, 1757)
- Battle of Sabbath Day Point (July 26, 1757)
- Battle of Fort William Henry (August 9, 1757)
- Battle of Louisburg (July 27, 1758)
- Battle of Fort Frontenac (August, 1758)
- Battle of Carillon (1758) (July 8, 1758)
- Battle of Fort Duquesne (September 14, 1758)
- Battle of Fort Ligonier (October 12, 1758)
- Forbes Expedition (climax on November 25, 1758 with the British occupation of the ruins of Fort Duquesne)
- Battle of Ticonderoga (1759)
- Battle of Fort Niagara (1759)
- Battle of Beauport (July 31, 1759)
- Battle of the Plains of Abraham (September 13, 1759)
- Battle of Sainte-Foy (April 28, 1760)
- Battle of Montreal (1760)
- Battle of Signal Hill (1762)
- 1763 Pontiac's Rebellion
- 1763 Frontier warfare during the American Revolution
- 1774 Dunmore's War
- 1775–1783 American Revolutionary War
- Major campaigns and expeditions of the war:
- 1775-1776 Siege of Boston
- 1775 Invasion of Canada (1775)
- 1776 New York Campaign
- 1777 Saratoga Campaign
- 1779 Sullivan Expedition
- Major battles:
- Battle of Lexington and Concord - April 19, 1775
- Battle of Ticonderoga - May 10, 1775
- Battle of Crown Point - May 12, 1775
- Battle of Bunker Hill - June 17, 1775
- Battle of Gloucester - August 8, 1775
- Battle of Kemp's Landing - November 14, 1775
- Battle of Great Bridge - November 28 - December 9, 1775
- Battle of Quebec - December 31, 1775
- Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge - February 27, 1776
- Battle of Dorchester Heights - March 2 -March 4, 1776
- Battle of the Rice Boats - March 2-March 3, 1776
- Battle of Trois-Rivières - June 8, 1776
- Battle of Long Island - August 27, 1776 (or the Battle of Brooklyn)
- Landing at Kip's Bay - September 15, 1776
- Battle of Harlem Heights - September 16, 1776
- Battle of Valcour Bay - October 11, 1776
- Battle of White Plains - October 28, 1776
- Battle of Trenton - December 26, 1776
- Battle of Princeton - January 3, 1777
- Battle of Ticonderoga (1777) - July 5-July 6, 1777
- Battle of Oriskany - August 6, 1777
- Battle of Bennington - August 16, 1777
- Battle of Brandywine - September 11, 1777
- Battle of Freeman's Farm - September 19, 1777 (or 1st Saratoga)
- Battle of Germantown - October 2, 1777
- Battle of Bemis Heights - October 7, 1777 (or 2nd Saratoga)
- Battle of Saratoga - October 17, 1777
- Battle of Freetown - May 25, 1778
- Battle of Monmouth - June 28, 1778
- Battle of Alligator Bridge - June 30, 1778
- First Battle of Ushant - July 27, 1778
- Battle of Vincennes - February 23-February 25, 1779
- Battle of Stony Point - July 16, 1779
- Battle of Newtown - August 29, 1779
- Siege of Savannah - October 9, 1779
- Battle of Cape St. Vincent - January 16, 1780
- Siege of Charleston - March 29, 1780
- Battle of Piqua - August 8, 1780
- Battle of Camden - August 16, 1780
- Battle of King's Mountain - October 7, 1780
- Battle of Cowpens - January 17, 1781
- Battle of Guilford Court House - March 15, 1781
- Battle of Groton Heights - September 6, 1781
- Battle of Eutaw Springs - September 8, 1781
- Battle of Yorktown - September/October 1781
- Second Battle of Ushant - December 12, 1781
- Battle of Sadras - February 17, 1782
- Battle of the Saintes - [[April 9-April 12, 1782
- Battle of Blue Licks - August 19, 1782
- Battle of Rhode Island
- 1785 - 1795 Northwest Indian War
- 1791 - 1804 Haitian Revolution
- 1794 Whiskey Rebellion
[edit] Nineteenth century
- 1810 - 1821 Mexican War of Independence
- 1812 - 1814 War of 1812
- 1813 - 1814 Creek War
- 1835 - 1836 Texas Revolution
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- Battle of Gonzales
- Battle of Bexar
- Siege of the alamo
- Massacre at Goliad
- Battle of San Jacinto
- 1837 - 1838 Rebellions of 1837
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- 1837 - 1838 Lower Canada Rebellion
- 1837 - 1838 Upper Canada Rebellion
- 1846 - 1848 Mexican-American War
- 1855 -1856 Puget Sound War
- 1861 - 1865 American Civil War
Ten Major Battles of the American Civil War:
- Battle of Gettysburg
- Battle of Chickamauga
- Battle of Chancellorsville
- Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
- Battle of Antietam
- Battle of the Wilderness
- Second Battle of Bull Run
- Battle of Stones River
- Battle of Shiloh
- Battle of Fort Donelson
- Grito de Lares, Proclamation of Puerto Rico's independence from Spain
- Grito de Yara, Proclamation of Cuba's independence from Spain
- 1863 - 1865 Colorado War
- 1865 - 1866 Fenian Raids
- 1869 - 1870 Red River Rebellion
- 1885 Northwest Rebellion
- 1892 Homestead Strike
- 1898 - Battle for Santiago, Cuba
- 1898 - Bombardment of San Juan, Puerto Rico
- 1898 - U.S. invasion of Puerto Rico through Guanica in the south of the island
[edit] Twentieth century
- 1910 - 1921 Mexican Revolution
- 1914 - 1918 World War I
- 1932 - 1933 Colombia-Peru War
- 1932 - 1935 Chaco War
- 1939 - 1945 World War II
Major Attacks
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- Attack on Pearl Harbor (didn't become part of the USA until 1959, but technically not part of North America) - December 7, 1941
- Battle of the Aleutian Islands - June 3, 1942 - August 15, 1943
- 1982 Falklands War
- 1994 - latent Civil war in Chiapas.
[edit] Twenty-first century
- 2001 - present War on Terrorism
[edit] See also
- List of conflicts in America
- List of wars
- List of conflicts in Central America
- List of conflicts in South America
- Military history of Canada
- Military history of the United States
- Military history of Mexico
- British colonization of the Americas
- French colonization of the Americas
- Spanish colonization of the Americas
[edit] List of conflicts in South America
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[edit] 16th century
- 1532: Pizarro captures and ransoms the Incan ruler Atahualpa at Cajamarca starting the Spanish conquest of Peru.
- 1557-1575: French-Portuguese conflict over France Antarctique, a French colony in Rio de Janeiro.
- 1591: Thomas Cavendish, a British corsair, occupied Santos
- 16th c.- 19th c.: War of Arauco.
[edit] 17th century
- 1612-1615: French invasion of Maranhão
- 1621-1654: Dutch occupation of Northeast Brazil, or the thirty-years war in Brazil.
- 1680-1750: Spanish-Portuguese conflict over Sacramento colony (today's Uruguay).
[edit] 18th century
- 1754-1757: Spanish-Portuguese invasion of the Jesuit-sponsored "Guarani Nation"
[edit] 19th century
- 1809: Portuguese invasion of French Guiana.
- 1810s and 1820s: South American Wars of Independence.
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- 1810 - 1818 Argentine War of Independence
- 1810 - 1818 Chilean War of Independence
- 1811 - 1823 Venezuelan War of Independence
- 1812 - 1821 Peruvian War of Independence
- 1821 - 1825 Brazilian War of Independence
- 1820 - 1828: The Argentina-Brazil War over the status of future Uruguay occurs.
- 1828 - 1829: Gran Colombia-Peru War.
- 1829 Chilean Revolution of 1829.
- 1835-1845: Republican revolt against the Empire of Brazil is put down in the War of Tatters.
- 1836 - 1839: War of the Confederation between the Peru-Bolivian Confederation and Chile.
- 1851 - 1852: War against Oribe and Rosas
- 1859 - 1863: Federal War in Venezuela.
- 1864 - 1866: The Chincha Islands War between Spain and former colonies Peru and Chile occurs.
- 1864 - 1870: The War of the Triple Alliance occurs.
- 1879 - 1884: Bolivia and Peru fight Chile in the War of the Pacific.
- 1891 Chilean Civil War.
- 1899 – 1902: Colombian Thousand Days War.
[edit] 20th century
- 1912-1916: Contestado War, a rebellion in Brazil, fails.
- 1932-1935: The Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay is fought.
- 1941: The Ecuadorian-Peruvian war occurs.
- 1947: The Colorado Party gains the upper hand in the Paraguayan Civil War.
- 1948 - 1958: La Violencia in Colombia.
- 1964-present: the Colombian Armed Conflict between the government and guerrilla insurgencies devastates the country.
- 1978: The Beagle conflict over the Beagle Channel between Argentina and Chile occurs.
- 1981: Ecuador and Peru clash again in the Paquisha Incident.
- 1981 to present, the Peruvian Armed Conflict or People's War fought between the Shining Path insurgents and the Peruvian government.
- 1982: The Falklands War occurs.
- 1995: Ecuador and Peru dispute territory in the Cenepa War.