Battle of Fort Niagara (1759) - This French fort fell to the British after a 19-day siege during the French and Indian War
Siege of Fort Detroit (1763) - Chief Pontiac's rebellion began with the attempt to take this fort from the British
Battles of Lexington and Concord (1775) - First battles of the Revolutionary War
Battle of Trenton (1776) - Continental Commander George Washington and his men crossed the Delaware River and defeated the Hessian garrison at Trenton
The Whiskey Rebellion (1791-94) - Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton and Virginia governor Henry Lee led a militia against rebels protesting excise taxes
Battle of Sitka (1804) - Battle between Tlingit natives and Russian colonizers
Battle of Tippecanoe (1811) - Governor William H. Harrison and Tecumseh faced off near the junction of the Tippecanoe and Wabash rivers
Battle of Lake Erie (1813) - Nine American ships defeated and captured six British ships during the War of 1812
Battle of New Orleans (1815) - Last major battle of the War of 1812
Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion (1831) - Also known as the Southampton Insurrection
Siege and Battle of the Alamo (1836) - Mexican troops led by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna took the Alamo after a 13-day siege
Battle of Lake Okeechobee (1837) - Battle of the Second Seminole War in which Africans and Native Americans comprising this state's Seminole Nation defeated a superior US force
Battle of Monterey (1846) - U.S. naval forces under Commodore John D. Sloat handily defeat a small group of the Mexican Coast Guard
Battle of Osawatomie (1856) - Attacks between free-state groups led by John Brown and pro-slavery citizens
The Mormon Expedition (1857-58) - President James Buchanan's attempt to replace Brigham Young as governor of this state's territory
The Pig War (1859) - Confrontation between the US and the UK over the Canada-US border in the San Juan Islands
Battle of Fort Sumter (1861) - The bombardment of Fort Sumter by the Confederates started the American Civil War
Battle of Shiloh (1862) - Began when the Confederates launched a surprise attack on Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant
Battle of Antietam (1862) - First major Civil War battle on Union soil and the bloodiest single-day battle in US history
Battle of Jonesborough (1864) - General William T. Sherman successfully secured Atlanta for the Union during the American Civil War
Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876) - Commonly known as Custer's Last Stand, this was a decisive Native American victory from among the many conflicts between natives and colonists
Wounded Knee Massacre (1890) - The US Army murdered about 150 members of the Sioux tribe
Raid on Columbus (1916) - Revolutionary leader Pancho Villa's forces attacked Columbus after being angered over American support of his rivals for the control of Mexico
Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941) - The surprise Japanese strike on a naval base led the US to enter World War 2
Bombardment of Fort Stevens (1942) - Japanese submarine opened fire on the fort protecting the mouth of the Columbia River
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