List of wars involving the United States in the 18th century

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This list includes military conflicts involving the United States in the 18th century.

Contents

This list is part of a larger series of list articles that cover the various wars involving the United States from its colonial roots to the present. They are:

For the criteria of what may be permitted on this list please refer to Lists of wars involving the United States.

Key

  US victory
  Another result [Note 1]
  US defeat

18th-century wars

See also

Notes

  1. for example a treaty or peace without a clear result, status quo ante bellum , result of civil or internal conflict, result unknown or indecisive, inconclusive
  2. Including the United Colonies period from 1776 to 1781 and the Confederation period from 1781 to 1783.
  3. Two independent "COR" Regiments, the Congress's Own Regiments, were recruited among British Canadiens. The 1st Canadian Regiment formed by James Livingston of Chambly, Quebec; [1] and the 2nd Canadian Regiment formed by Moses Hazen of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec. [2]
  4. Augustin de La Balme independently marched on Detroit under a French flag with British Canadien militia recruited from western Quebec (Illinois County, Virginia) at the county seat of Kaskaskia, Cahokia, and Vincennes. [3]
  5. (until 1779)
  6. Sixty-five percent of Britain's German auxiliaries employed in North America were from Hesse-Kassel (16,000) and Hesse-Hanau (2,422), flying this same flag. [6]
  7. Twenty percent of Britain's German auxiliaries employed in North America were from Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (5,723), [7] flying this flag. [8]
  8. The British hired over 30,000 professional soldiers from various German states who served in North America from 1775 to 1782. [10] Commentators and historians often refer to them as mercenaries or auxiliaries, terms that are sometimes used interchangeably. [9]
  9. (from 1779)
  10. Some historians name the 1861–1865 war the "Second American Civil War", because in their view, the American Revolutionary War can also be considered a civil war (since the term can be used in reference to any war in which one political body separates itself from another political body). They then refer to the Independence War, which resulted in the separation of the Thirteen Colonies from the British Empire, as the "First American Civil War". [11] [12] A significant number of American colonists stayed loyal to the British Crown and as Loyalists fought on the British side while opposite were a significant amount of colonists called Patriots who fought on the American side. In some localities, there was fierce fighting between Americans including gruesome instances of hanging, drawing, and quartering on both sides. [13] [14] [15] [16]
  11. France entered the American Revolution on the side of the colonists in 1778, turning what had essentially been a civil war into an international conflict.

References

  1. Smith 1907, p. 86
  2. Everest 1977, p. 38
  3. Seineke 1981, p. 36, fn
  4. 1 2 Bell 2015, Essay
  5. Tortora, Daniel J. (February 4, 2015). "Indian Patriots from Eastern Massachusetts: Six Perspectives". Journal of the American Revolution. Archived from the original on February 2, 2023. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
  6. Axelrod 2014, p. 66
  7. Eelking 1893, p. 66
  8. "Duchy of Brunswick until 1918 (Germany)". www.crwflags.com. Flags of the World . Retrieved 5 February 2024.
  9. 1 2 Atwood 2002, pp. 1, 23
  10. Lowell 1884, pp. 14–15
  11. Eric Herschthal. America's First Civil War: Alan Taylor's new history poses the revolution as a battle inside America as well as for its liberty Archived June 26, 2017, at the Wayback Machine , The Slate, September 6, 2016.
  12. James McAuley. Ask an Academic: Talking About a Revolution Archived January 7, 2018, at the Wayback Machine , The New Yorker, August 4, 2011.
  13. Thomas Allen. Tories: Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War. New York, Harper, 2011.
  14. Peter J. Albert (ed.). An Uncivil War: The Southern Backcountry During the American Revolution. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1985.
  15. Alfred Young (ed.). The American Revolution: Explorations in the History of American Radicalism. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1976.
  16. Armitage, David. Every Great Revolution Is a Civil War Archived December 3, 2013, at the Wayback Machine . In: Keith Michael Baker and Dan Edelstein (eds.). Scripting Revolution: A Historical Approach to the Comparative Study of Revolutions. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. According to Armitage, "The renaming can happen relatively quickly: for example, the transatlantic conflict of the 1770s that many contemporaries[ who? ] saw as a British "civil war" or even "the American Civil War" was first called "the American Revolution" in 1776 by the chief justice of South Carolina, William Henry Drayton."
  17. David Ramsay. The History of the American Revolution Archived July 27, 2018, at the Wayback Machine . 1789.
  18. Elise Stevens Wilson. Colonists Divided: A Revolution and a Civil War Archived October 17, 2016, at the Wayback Machine , The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History .
  19. Timothy H. Breen. The American Revolution as Civil War Archived June 24, 2017, at the Wayback Machine , National Humanities Center.
  20. 1776: American Revolution or British Civil War? Archived July 27, 2018, at the Wayback Machine , University of Cambridge.
  21. "Milestones: 1801–1829". Office of the Historian, State Department, United States.
  22. David Hunter Miller, ed. (1931). Treaties and Other International Acts of the United States of America. Vol. 2. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 275, 303.