By Tamie Dehler
TERRE HAUTE — America has been at war for the past eight years in Afghanistan and the past six years in Iraq. Some day family historians will be looking up information on the veterans of these wars.
For now, there are 48 other wars, revolts, or rebellions that our ancestors possibly participated in. In the earliest wars, they were fighting for England. After 1783, the were fighting as Americans. The following is a list of these conflicts, many of which were local insurrections, or wars to overcome the Indians. Often, a person participated in these battles as a member of a state militia (what would now be the National Guard). Militia records most often reside with the individual state. For more information visit www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rwguide/lesson14.htm.
• 1675-1676 King Philip’s War
• 1676 Bacon’s Rebellion
• 1689-1697 King William’s War (War of the League of Augsburg)
• 1702-1713 Queen Anne’s War (War of the Spanish Succession)
• 1715-1716 Yamasee War
• 1739-1742 War of Jenkins’ Ear
• 1744-1748 King George’s War (War of Austrian Succession)
• 1760-1761 Cherokee Uprising
• 1754-1763 French and Indian War (Seven Years War)
• 1763-1764 Pontiac’s Rebellion
• 1771 War of the Regulators
• 1774 Lord Dunmore’s War
• 1775-1783 Revolutionary War
• 1786-1787 Shays Rebellion
• 1794 Whiskey Rebellion
• 1798-1800 Quasi-war with France
• 1801-1805 War with the Barbary Pirates
• 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe
• 1812-1815 War of 1812
• 1813-1815 Creek War
• 1817-1819 Seminole War
• 1828-1850 Cherokee Disturbances and Removal
• 1831-1832 Black Hawk War
• 1835-1842 Florida War (Second Seminole War)
• 1836 Texas War of Independence
• 1837-1838 Patriot War
• 1839 Aroostook War
• 1841 Door Rebellion
• 1846-1848 Mexican War
• 1846-1868 Navajo Wars
• 1848-1858 Third Seminole War
• 1855-1858 Yakima Wars
• 1857-1858 Utah War
• 1861-1865 The Civil War
• 1866-1890 Sioux and Cheyenne Wars
• 1870-1886 Apache Wars
• 1872-1873 Modoc War
• 1877 Nez Perce Wars
• 1898 Spanish-American War
• 1899-1902 Philippine Insurrection
• 1900 Boxer Rebellion
• 1914 Tampico and Vera Cruz Incidents in Mexico
• 1916-1917 Mexican Punitive Expedition (in search of Pancho Villa)
• 1917-1918 World War I (The Great War)
• 1941-1945 World War II
• 1950-1953 Korean War
• 1961-1973 Vietnam War
• 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War
