List of conflicts in North America

List of conflicts in North America

Before the 16th Century

• 1006 Norseman versus Beothuk along the coast of Newfoundland

Sixteenth Century

• 1520 Aztecs force Cortés from Tenochtitlan
• 1521 Cortés captures the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan
• 1524 Alvarado burns the Mayan kingdom of Quiché
• 1530 Alvarado enslaves the Mayan kingdoms of Cakchiquel, Mam, and Ixil.
• 1565 Massacre of French colonists from Fort Caroline by Spanish soldiers from St. Augustine

Seventeenth Century

• through the 17th century war between the Huron and the Iroquois
• 1640 French and Iroquois Wars
• 1689-1697 King William's War

Eighteenth Century

• 1702-1713 Queen Anne's War
• 1744-1748 King George's War
• 1754-1763 The French and Indian War

• 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)

• 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 2-4, 1776
• Battle of the Rice Boats - March 2-3, 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 5-6, 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 23-25, 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 9-12, 1782
• Battle of Blue Licks - August 19, 1782
• Battle of Rhode Island

• 1785 - 1795 Northwest Indian War

Nineteenth Century

• 1812 War of 1812
• 1813-1814 Creek War
• 1837 Rebellions of 1837

• 1837 - 1838 Lower Canada Rebellion
• 1837 - 1838 Upper Canada Rebellion

• 1861 - 1865 American Civil War

• List of Battles of the American Civil War

Ten Major Battles of the American Civil War:

1. Battle of Gettysburg
2. Battle of Chickamauga
3. Battle of Chancellorsville
4. Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
5. Battle of Antietam
6. Battle of the Wilderness
7. Second Battle of Manassas
8. Battle of Stones River
9. Battle of Shiloh
10. Battle of Fort Donelson

• 1863 - 1865 Colorado War
• 1865 - 1866 Fenian Raids
• 1869 – 1870 Red River Rebellion

Twenty-first Century

since 1994 civil war in Chiapas

See also

• list of conflicts in Canada
• list of wars
• list of wars 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