Wars of United States

18th century wars

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
United
States
France
Spain
Vermont
Great Britain
Loyalists
Victory
German
Netherlands Auxiliaries
• Treaty of Paris
American
• Britain recognizes the
Revolutionary
independence of the United
War Iroquois
Mysore States of America
(1775–1783) Onondaga • End of the First British
Mohawk Empire[1]
Cayuga
Seneca
Oneida Cherokee
Tuscarora
Watauga
Association
Catawba
Lenape
Choctaw
Chickamauga
United
War Cherokee Victory
States
(1776–1795)
Western
Victory
Confederacy
Great Britain
Northwest • Treaty of Greenville
United
Indian War • British withdrawal
States • British
(1785–1793) • American occupation of the
North
Northwest Territory
America

Victory
Whiskey
United Frontier tax • Armed resistance
Rebellion
protesters eliminated.
(1791–1794) States
• Minor tax evasion
 Indecisive

• Peaceful cessation of
Quasi-War United
Franco-American
American alliance
(1798–1800) States
• End of French privateer
Part of the Batavian France
attacks onn American
French Republic Spain shipping
Revolutionary Great • American neutrality and
War Britain renunciation of claims
against France

19th century wars

War of 1812

American Civil War

Spanish–American War
Combatant
Conflict Combatant 2 Result
1
Ottoman Empire
First (de jure)
Barbary War Victory
(1801–1805) United • Eyalet of
Part of the States Tripolitania • Peace treaty
Barbary Sweden
Wars Sultanate of
Morocco
Victory
Tecumseh's
United Tecumseh's
War
States Confederacy • Peace treaty
(1811)
 United Kingdom
Stalemate
• British
United North • Treaty of Ghent
War of 1812 States America • Defeat of Tecumseh's
(1812–1815) Choctaw Confederacy
Cherokee Tecumseh's • U.S. nationalism
Creek Allies Confederacy[show] strengthened[2]

Spain (1814)
United
States Victory
Creek War Lower
Red Stick Creek
(1813–1814) Creeks • Treaty of Fort Jackson
Cherokee
Choctaw
Second Ottoman Empire
Barbary War (de jure) Victory
(1815) United
Part of the States • Regency • Peace treaty
Barbary of Algiers
Wars
First
Seminole United Seminole Victory
War States Spanish Florida
(1817–1818)
Republic
Texas-
of Texas
Indian wars Comanche Victory
United
(1820–1875)
States
Victory

• The Arikara eventually

Arikara War United
Arikara settled with the Mandan and
(1823) States
Hidatsa on the Fort Berthold
Reservation in North Dakota

Victory

• Defeat of Greek pirates

Aegean Sea
• HMS Comet liberated by
Anti-Piracy United
Greek Pirates American forces
Operations States
• Message of thanks issued to
(1825–1828)
Louis Goldsborough from the
British government

Winnebago United Prairie La Crosse Ho-

Victory
War States Chunks
(1827) with a few allies
• Ho-Chunks cede lead mining
region to the United States

First United
Sumatran States Chiefdom of Kuala
Victory
expedition Batee
(1832) Netherlands
United
States Black Hawks British
Black Hawk
Ho-Chunk Band
War Victory
Menominee Ho-Chunk and
(1832)
Dakota Potawatomi allies
Potawatomi
Victory
Second
Seminole United • 3,800 Seminoles transported
Seminole
War States to the Indian Territory
(1835–1842) • 300 remain in Everglades

Victory

United • Defeat of Hunters' Lodges

Patriot War
Kingdom • Navy Island retaken
(1838) Republic of
Upper • "Republic of Canada"
Part of the Canada
Canada collapses
Rebellions Hunters' Lodge
United • Unification of Upper and
of 1837
States Lower Canada into the
Province of Canada

United
Victory
States Fiji
United
Exploring Samoa
States • "Exploration" successful
Expedition Tabiteuea
(1838–1842)
Second United
Sumatran States Chiefdom of Kuala
Victory
expedition Batee
(1838) Netherlands
Victory

Mexican– United • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

American States • Mexican Cession
Mexico
War • Mexican recognition of
California
(1846–1848) Republic Texas and California (among
other territories) as
independent; end of conflict
 between Mexico and Texas

Cayuse War United

Cayuse Victory
(1847–1855) States
Victory
Apache Apache
United
Wars Ute • Apaches moved to
States
(1851–1900) Yavapai reservations

Nisqually Victory
Muckleshoot
Puget Sound
United Puyallup • Indians relocated to Siletz,
War
States Klickitat Grand Ronde, and Coast
(1855–1856)
Haida Reservations
Tlingit
Victory
Rogue River
United • Indians relocated to Siletz,
Wars Rogue River people
States Grand Ronde, and Coast
(1855–1856)
Reservations

Third
Seminole United
Seminole Victory
War States
(1855–1858)
Victory
Yakima War United
Yakama
(1855–1858) States • Peace treaty

Resolution

• Resolution through
negotiation
• Brigham Young replaced as
governor of the territory
Deseret / Utah
Utah War United • Full amnesty for charges of
Mormons (Nauvoo
(1857–1858) States sedition and treason issued to
Legion)
the citizens of Utah Territory
by President James Buchanan
on the condition that they
accept American Federal
authority

Victory
Navajo
United
Wars Navajo
States • Long Walk of the Navajo
(1858–1866)
• Navajos moved to
 reservations

Victory
France
Cochinchina • Treaty of Saigon
Spain
Campaign Nguyễn Dynasty • Cochinchina (southern
United
(1858–1862) Vietnam) becomes a French
States
colony.

First and United

Second States Mexican
Victory
Cortina War Confederate Paramilitary Forces
(1859–1861) States
Paiute
Paiute War United
Shoshone Victory
(1860) States
Bannock
Mexican
Reform War Liberals Mexican
Victory
(1860) United Conservatives
States
Victory

• Slavery abolished
• Territorial integrity preserved
American
United Confederate • Lincoln assassinated
Civil War
States States • Dissolution of the
(1861–1865)
Confederacy
• Beginning of the
Reconstruction Era

Yavapai
United
Wars Yavapai Victory
States
(1861–1875)
Dakota War
United
of 1862 Dakota Sioux Victory
States
(1862)
Victory
Colorado
United Cheyenne • Military and
nd congressional
War
States Arapaho hearings against John
(1863–1865)
Chivington

British Victory
Shimonoseki Empire
War Dutch Chōshū Domain • Chōshūū pays an indemnity of
(1863–1864) Empire $3,000,000.
French
 Empire
United
States
Paiute
Snake War United
Bannock Victory
(1864–1868) States
Shoshone
Powder Sioux
United
River War Cheyenne Victory
States
(1865) Arapaho
Defeat

• Treaty of Fort Laramie

(1868)
Red Cloud's Lakota • Legal control of Powder
United
War Cheyenne River Country ceded to
States
(1866–1868) Arapaho Native Americans
• Creation of the Great Sioux
Reservation (including the
Black Hills)

Cheyenne
Comanche Arapaho
United
Campaign Victory
States Comanche
(1867–1875)
Kiowa
Victory
United
States • Spurred by Joseon's unknown
United
expedition Joseon Dynasty treatment of the American
States
to Korea merchant ship General
(1871) Sherman.

Modoc War United

Modoc Victory
(1872–1873) States
Cheyenne Victory
Red River Arapaho
United
War
States Comanche • End to the Texas-Indian
Texas Wars
(1874–1875)
Kiowa
Victory
Las Cuevas
United
War Mexican militia
States • Cattle returned to
t Texas
(1875)

Victory
Lakota
Great Sioux
United Northern • Legal control of Powder
War of 1876
States Cheyenne River Country ceded to the
(1876–1877)
Arapaho United States
Nez Perce
United
War Nez Perce Victory
States
(1877)
Bannock
United Bannock
War Victory
States Shoshone
(1878)
Cheyenne
United
War Cheyenne Victory
States
(1878–1879)
Sheepeater
United
Indian War Shoshone Victory
States
(1879)
White River
United
War Ute Victory
States
(1879–1880)
Pine Ridge
United
Campaign Sioux Victory
States
(1890–1891)
Garza Mexico
Revolution United Garzistas Victory
(1891–1893) States
United
Yaqui Wars
States Yaqui Victory
(1896-1918)
Mexico
Compromise

• Allies and Rebels

compromise for peace
Tripartite Convention
• United States
ates acquires
Second American Samoa
Samoa
Samoan Mataafans • United Kingdom withdraws
United
Civil War Germany claim in exchange for
States
(1898–1899) concessions in the Solomon
Islands
• Germany acquires German
Samoa
• Mata'afa Iosefo becomes
paramount chief of Samoa

United Victory
States
Spanish– Cuba • Treaty of Paris
American
Spain • Protectorate over Cuba
War Philippine
• Collapse of the Spanish
(1898) Republic
Empire
Katipunan • Generation of '98 among
 Spanish intellectuals

First Philippine
Republic
Philippine
Republican Army Victory
Philippine– Pulajanes
American United • Occupation of the Philippines
Sulu Sultanate
War States • Dissolution of the First
(1899–1902) Moro Philippine Republic
Republic of
Zamboanga
Republic of
Negros
Moro Moro
United
Rebellion Remnants of the Victory
States
(1899–1913) Sulu Sultanate
United
Kingdom
Russia
Victory
Japan
Boxer France • The rebellion was suppressed
Righteous
Rebellion United • Signing of the Boxer Protocol
Harmony Society
(1899–1901) States • Provisions for foreign troops
China
to be stationed in Beijing
Germany
Italy
Austria-
Hungary

20th century wars

World War I
World War II

Korean War

Lebanese Intervention

Vietnam War
Dominican Civil War

Invasion of Grenada
Invasion of Panama

Gulf War

Somali Civil War

Bosnian War
Kosovo War
Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
Mexican Carrancista/American
Victory over Villista rebels

• Occupation of Veracruz
Border War • American military is ordered to
(1910–1919) Mexican withdraw from Mexican
United
Part of the Carrancistas territory after the defeat in the
States
Mexican Germany Battle of Carrizal
Revolution • General John J. Pershing
acknowledges the failure of the
American army to meet the
objectives of their campaign
during the Pancho Villa
 Expedition[3]
• Permanent border wall
established along the border of
Nogales, Sonora, and Nogales,
Arizona, after the Battle of
Ambos Nogales[4]
• Battles between Mexican and
American forces ceased in 1919
after the American/Carrancista
victory in the Battle of Ciudad
Juárez over the Villistas[5]
• Pancho
cho Villa's troops no longer
an effective fighting force[6]
• Pancho Villa obtains pardon
from the Mexican government.

Victory
Occupation
of Nicaragua
United • Nicaragua occupied until 1933.
(1912–1933) Nicaraguan
States • Great Depression marked US
Part of the Liberals
Nicaragua Germany withdrawal in 1933.
Banana
• Change of regime in Nicaragua.
Wars
Occupation
of Haiti Victory
Haitian
(1915–1934) United States
Rebels
Part of the Haiti • Haiti occupied
Germany
Banana
Wars
Occupation
of the
Dominican Victory
Republic Dominican
United States Rebels
(1916–1924) • Dominican Republic occupied
Part of the Germany
Banana
Wars
France Victory
United
Kingdom • End of the German,
German Russian,
Germany
Russia Ottoman, and Austro-Hungarian
Austro
United Austria- empires
World War I States Hungary
• Formation of new countries in
(1917–1918) Ottoman
China Europe and the Middle East
Italy Empire • Transfer of German
Germ colonies and
Bulgaria regions of the former Ottoman
Japan
Canada Empire to other powers
Australia • Establishment of the League of
 New Nations
Zealand
India
South Africa
Serbia
Montenegro
Romania
Belgium
Greece
Portugal
Brazil
Haiti
Russian
White Movement Russian
United SFSR
Kingdom Far
Allied
United Eastern
intervention
States Republic Defeat
in the
Russian Civil Japan Latvian
SSR • Allied withdrawal from Russia
War
Czechoslovakia Ukrainian • Bolshevik victory over White
(1918–1920)
Greece SSR Army
Part of the
Poland Commune
Russian Civil
France of Estonia
War
Romania
Serbia Mongolian
Italy communists
China
Soviet
Union Germany
United
Vichy
States
France
United Victory
Kingdom Japan
China Italy • Collapse of the Third Reich
Hungary • Defeat and dissolution of Vichy
French
Resistance Romania France
Bulgaria • Fall of Japanese and Italian
World War II Poland
Finland Empires
(1941–1945) Canada
Thailand • Creation of the United Nations
Australia
• Emergence of the United States
New
Zealand Manchukuo and the Soviet Union as
superpowers
India
Mengjiang • Beginning of the Cold War
South Africa
Mongolia Croatia
Yugoslavia Slovakia
Greece Albania
Denmark
 Norway
Netherlands
Philippines
Belgium
Luxembourg

Czechoslovakia
Brazil
Mexico
Ethiopia
Viet Minh
KLA
El Salvador
Haiti
South Korea
United
States Ceasefire
United
Kingdom
• Cease-fire armistice
Australia
• North Korean invasion of South
Belgium North Korea repelled
Canada
Korean War Korea • UN invasion of North Korea
Philippines
(1950–1953) repelled
Colombia
Part of the China • Chinese-North
North Korean-Soviet
Korean
Cold War Ethiopia invasion of South Korea repelled
Soviet
Greece • Korean Demilitarized Zone
Union
Luxembourg established, little territorial
Netherlands change at the 38th parallel
New Zealand border
South Africa
Thailand
Turkey
Guatemala
Intervention Lebanese INM
in Lebanon Government LCP Victory
(1958) United States PSP
Defeat
Bay of Pigs
Invasion
United States • U.S led invasion suppressed.
(1961) Cuba
CDRF • Failed to assassinate Fidel
Part of the
Castro
Cold War

United States Victory

Dominican Brazil • Juan Bosch excluded from
Civil War Honduras Dominican
Presidency
(1965–1966) Paraguay Republic
• Election of Joaquín Balaguer.
Balaguer
Nicaragua
 South Defeat
Vietnam
United North • Withdrawal of American forces
Vietnam from Indochina
Vietnam War States
• North Vietnamese victory over
(1965–1973) South
uth Korea Viet Cong
Australia South Vietnam
Part of the Khmer • Dissolution of the Republic of
Cold War New Rouge
Zealand Vietnam
and Khmer • Communist governments take
Indochina Thailand Issarak power in South Vietnam,
Vietnam Laos
Wars Khmer Pathet and Cambodia
Republic Lao • South Vietnam is annexed by
Kingdom of North Vietnam
Laos
Victory
Italy
Multinational
United States
Force in Islamic Jihad • Multinational
national forces supervise
France
Lebanon Organization withdrawal of Palestine
United
(1982-1984) Liberation Organization.
Organization
Kingdom

Victory

Invasion of • Military dictatorship of Hudson

Grenada PRG of Austin deposed
(1983) United States Grenada • Defeat of Cuban military
Part of the Cuba presence
Cold War • Restoration of Constitutional
Co
Government

Victory
Invasion of
United
Panama Panama • Dictator Manuel Noriega
States
(1989–1990) deposed.

Kuwait
United
States
United
Kingdom Victory
Saudi Arabia
Gulf War France • Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait;
(1990–1991) Canada Iraq Emir Jaber III restored
Egypt • Sanctions against Iraq
Syria
Qatar
Bahrain
United Arab
Emirates
 Oman
Bangladesh
United States
United
Kingdom
Iraqi no-fly
France
zones
Australia Iraq Victory
conflict
Belgium
(1991–2003)
Netherlands
Saudi Arabia
Turkey
United
States
United
Kingdom
Spain
Saudi Arabia Victory
Malaysia
Pakistan • UN humanitarian mandate
Somali Civil
Italy fulfilled.
War Somalia • About 100,000 lives were saved
(1992–1995) India by outside resistance.
Greece • Civil war is ongoing.
Germany
France
Canada
Botswana
Belgium
Australia
Victory
Intervention United States
in Haiti Poland Haiti • Reinstatement of Jean-Bertrand
(1994–1995) Argentina Aristide as president of Haiti.

Bosnia and
Herzegovina
Stalemate
Republika
Srpska • Dayton Accords
Herzeg-
Bosnian War Bosnia • Internal partition of Bosnia and
(1994–1995) YPA Herzegovina according to the
Croatia Serbian
Part of the Dayton Accords
Yugoslav Krajina • Deployment of NATO-led
NATO IFOR
Wars Western to oversee the peace agreement
Bosnia • Massive civilian casualties for
United FR the Bosniak ethnic group
States Yugoslavia
Belgium
Canada
 Denmark
France
Germany
Italy
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Norway
Portugal
Spain
Turkey
United
Kingdom

KLA
AFRK
Albania
Croatia
United
States
Belgium
Canada
Czech Victory
Republic
Kosovo War
Denmark • Kumanovo Treaty
(1998–1999)
FR • Yugoslav security forces pull
Part of the France
Germany Yugoslavia out of Kosovo
Yugoslav
• KLA veterans join the UÇPMB,
Wars Hungary
starting the Preševo insurgency
Italy
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Norway
Portugal
Poland
Spain
Turkey
United
Kingdom

21st century wars

War in Afghanistan

lraq War

War in Pakistan

Intervention in Libya
Intervention against ISIL
Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
United
States

Afghanistan
ISAF
United
Kingdom
Germany
Denmark
Italy
France Ongoing
Canada Taliban
Australia al-Qaeda
• Defeat of the Taliban government
New Mujahideen in Afghanistan
Zealand IMU • Fall of the Islamic Emirate of
War in El Haqqani Afghanistan
Afghanistan Salvador network • Destruction of al-Qaeda
Qaeda camps
(2001– Armenia ETIM • Killing of Osama bin Laden
present) Georgia Islamic • Establishment of new Afghan
Part of the Jihad Union
Norway government
War on
Sweden Hezb-e- • Creation of new Afghan National
Terror Islami
Poland Army
Estonia Gulbuddin • Return of more than 5.7 million
Romania United Afghan refugees from Pakistan and
Tajik Iran
Turkey
Opposition
Bulgaria
Hungary

Luxembourg
Portugal
Austria
Jordan
Albania
Iceland
Northern
Alliance
Iraq War United Baath Victory
(2003–2011) States Loyalists
Part of the Iraq Islamic • Invasion and occupation of Iraq
War on United State of Iraq • Defeat of Ba'ath Party government
Terror and Kingdom al-Qaeda and execution of Saddam Hussein
Iraqi South in Iraq • Iraqi insurgency,, emergence of al-
Insurgency Korea Mahdi Qaeda in Iraq, and civil war[7]
Italy Army • Subsequent depletion
pletion of Iraqi
[8]
Poland Special insurgency, improvements in
Australia Groups public security[9]
IAI • Establishment of democratic
de
Georgia
Ansar al- elections and formation of new
Ukraine Sunnah Shia led government
Estonia • U.S.–Iraqq Status of Forces
Agreement
Netherlands • Withdrawal of U.S. forces from
Ba'athist
Spain Iraq Iraq
Denmark • Rise of sectarian insurgency after
MNF–I U.S. withdrawal and spillover with
Syrian Civil War
• Emergence of The Islamic State of
Syria and the Levant[10]
• Return of U.S. Forces to Iraq in
summer 2014

Tehrik-i-
Taliban
Pakistan
al-Qaeda
Lashkar-e-
Ongoing
Jhangvi
Lashkar-e-
• Ongoing insurgency
War in Islam
• Drone strikes being conducted by
North-West Islamic
United military and CIA
Pakistan Movement of
States • Large part of FATA under Taliban
(2004– Uzbekistan
control.
present) East
• Shifting public support for the
Part of the Turkestan
Pakistan Pakistani government
War on Islamic
• Killing of Osama bin Laden
Terror Movement
• Various insurgent groups continue
Tehreek-e-
to fight under ISIL allegiance.
allegia
Shariat

Islamic
State of Iraq
and the Levant
Military Victory
NLA
intervention
Qatar
in Libya • Overthrow of Gaddafi government
United Libya
(2011) • Assumption of interim control by
States
Part of the National Transitional Council
Bulgaria
Libyan Civil (NTC)
War Belgium • Diplomatic recognition
recogni of NTC as
Canada sole governing authority for Libya
Denmark by 105 countries, UN,
UN EU, AL and
AU
France
• Post-civil
civil war violence in Libya
Greece
Italy

Netherlands
Norway
Romania
Spain
Turkey
United
Kingdom
Sweden
Jordan
United
Arab Emirates
United
States
France
Jordan
Morocco
United Ongoing
Multinational Kingdom
Iraq • Airstrikes on ISIL and al-Qaeda
al
intervention
Syrian Islamic affiliates positions in Iraq and
against ISIL
Opposition State of Iraq Syria.
(2014–
Egypt and the Levant • Multinational humanitarian effort
present)
Libya Boko • Hundreds of thousands of civilians
Part of the
Australia Haram in Iraq and Syria flee their homes
Iraqi
Belgium to escape advancing ISIL forces.
Insurgency,
Canada • Thousands of Syrian and IraqiIra
Syrian Civil
Denmark al-Nusra civilians killed or wounded by ISIL
War,
Germany Front forces.
Second
Italy Khorasan • Arming and support for local
Libyan Civil
ground forces
War, Sinai Netherlands • 2 American journalists, 1 American
insurgency, New humanitarian supporter, 1
Boko Haram Zealand
Ahrar ash- American oil worker, 2 British
insurgency, Bahrain Sham humanitarian supporters, 1 French
and the War Saudi tourist, 2 Japanese civilians, and 1
on Terror Arabia Jordanian
danian pilot executed.
United
Arab Emirates
Qatar
Nigeria
Cameroon
Chad
 Niger

Iran
Hezbollah

See also
• List of ongoing armed conflicts
• Timeline of United States military operations
• Timeline of United States at war

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