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This is a list of military conflicts, that United States has been involved in. There are currently 123 military conflicts on this list, 5 of which are ongoing. These include major conflicts like the American Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War, the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II and the Gulf War.
American victory: Native Americans' attack repulsed [30] Battle of Long Island: August 27, 1776: New York: British victory: in the largest battle of the war the American army of George Washington is outflanked and routed on Long Island but later manages to evacuate to Manhattan Landing at Kip's Bay: September 15, 1776: New York
The film (public domain) Hell-Bent For Election is a 1944 two-reel (thirteen minute) animated cartoon short subject film. [3] [4]The short was one of the first major films from United Productions of America (then known as "Industrial Films"), which would go on to become the most influential animation studio of the 1950s.
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
While the Civil War endured for two additional years and the Union ultimately concluded that a more aggressive military approach, which Union general Ulysses S. Grant brought to the war, was required to fully subdue the Confederates, any realistic probability of a Confederate victory ended with the Confederate defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg ...
(24 days during the war) Declared the armed conflict to be "virtually" ended on May 9, 1865 [3] Secretary of War. Simon Cameron: March 5, 1861 – January 14, 1862 (277 days during the war) resigned January 14, 1862 Edwin Stanton: January 20, 1862 – May 28, 1867 (1,205 days during the war) previously U.S. Attorney General: Secretary of Navy ...
Henry V's victory at Agincourt, against a numerically superior French army, crippled France and started a new period in the war during which Henry V married the French princess Catherine of Valois, and their son, the future Henry VI, was made heir to the throne of France as well as of England. The battle saw the death of between 6,000 and 9,000 ...
In Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History, edited by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000. ISBN 0-393-04758-X. Denison, Frederic. Sabres and Spurs: The First Regiment Rhode Island Cavalry in the Civil War, 1861–1865. Baltimore: Butternut and Blue, 1994.