[This book provides] information on every significant recorded conflict in American history, from Bunker Hill to the Bataan Peninsula, from Antietam to Afghanistan. [The book] sheds light on the underlying causes of each conflict and offers ... insight and perspective on the conduct and historical impact of more than 100 armed struggles. -- From the dust jacket.

Chapter 1Colonial and Native American Wars before 1754 -- 7 -- Conquest of the Hawikuh Pueblo, New Mexico, 1540 -- 9 -- Acoma Revolt, 1599 -- 10 -- Powhatan War, 1622-1644 -- 11 -- Mohawk-Mahican War, 1624-1628 -- 16 -- Pequot War, 1637 -- 18 -- Iroquoian Beaver Wars, 1638-1684 -- 22 -- Algonquian-Dutch War (Kieft's War), 1639-1645 -- 27 -- Iroquois-French Wars, 1642-1696 -- 30 -- Maryland's War with the Susquehannocks, 1643-1652 -- 31 -- Maryland's Religious War, 1644-1654 -- 32 -- Iroquois-Huron War, 1648-1650 -- 33 -- Peach War, 1655-1657 -- 34 -- Esopus Wars, 1659-1660 and 1663-1664 -- 34 -- King Philip's War, 1675-1676 -- 36 -- First Abnaki War, 1675-1678 -- 43 -- Bacon's Rebellion, 1676 -- 44 -- Pope's Rebellion, 1680 -- 48 -- Leisler's Rebellion, 1689-1691 -- 50 -- King William's War, 1689-1697 -- 53 -- First Pima Revolt, 1695 -- 56 -- Second Abnaki War, 1702-1712 -- 56 -- Queen Anne's War, 1702-1713 -- 56 -- Tuscarora War, 1711-1712 -- 59 -- Fox Resistance, 1712-1733 -- 61 -- Yamasee War, 1715-1716 -- 63 -- Chickasaw Resistance, 1720-1724 -- 63 -- Natchez Revolt, 1729 -- 64 -- Dummer's War (Third Abnaki War), 1722-1727 -- 64 -- King George's War, 1744-1748 -- 65 -- Second Pima Revolt, 1751 -- 68 -- Chapter 2 French and Indian War -- 69 -- French and Indian War, 1754-1763 -- 69 -- Cherokee Uprising of 1759-1762 -- 94 -- Pontiac's Rebellion, 1763-1766 -- 95 -- Chapter 3 American Revolution -- 101 -- Regulators' Revolt, 1771 -- 101 -- Lord Dunmore's War, 1774 -- 102 -- American Revolution, 1775-1783 -- 104 -- Chapter 4 Conflicts of the Early Republic and the War of 1812 -- 162 -- Shays's Rebellion, 1786-1787 -- 162 -- Little Turtle's War, 1786-1795 -- 164 -- Whiskey Rebellion, 1794 -- 168 -- American-French Quasi-War, 1798-1800 -- 169 -- Tripolitan War, 1801-1805 -- 172 -- War of 1812, 1812-1814 -- 174 -- Creek War, 1812-1814 -- 186 -- Algerine War, 1815 -- 188 -- First Seminole War, 1817-1818 -- 189 -- Fredonian Rebellion, 1826-1827 -- 191 -- Aroostook War, 1838-1839 -- 192 -- Chapter 5 Wars of the Indian Removal -- 193 -- Indian Removal Act of 1830 -- 193 -- Second Seminole War, 1835-1842 -- 196 -- Third Seminole War, 1855-1858 -- 199 -- Black Hawk War, 1832 -- 199 -- Chapter 6 United States-Mexican War and Associated Conflicts -- 205 -- Texan War of Independence, 1835-1836 -- 205 -- Bear Flag Rebellion, 1846 -- 212 -- United States-Mexican War, 1846-1848 -- 215 -- Chapter 7 Early Indian Wars in the West -- 229 -- Mariposa War, 1850-1851 -- 229 -- Yuma and Mojave Uprising, 1851-1852 -- 230 -- Rogue River War, 1855-1856 -- 231 -- Yakima War, 1855 -- 233 -- Coeur d'Alene War (Spokane War), 1858 -- 236 -- Paiute War (Pyramid Lake War), 1860 -- 237 -- Apache and Navajo War, 1860-1868 -- 238 -- Minnesota Santee Sioux Uprising, 1862 -- 241 -- Chapter 8 Civil War -- 246 -- "Bleeding Kansas" Guerrilla War, 1854-1861 -- 247 -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- 249 -- Chapter 9 Later Indian Wars in the West -- 302 -- Cheyenne and Arapaho War, 1864-1865 -- 302 -- War for the Bozeman Trail, 1866-1868 -- 304 -- Hancock's Campaign (Hancock's War), 1867 -- 306 -- Snake War, 1866-1868 -- 308 -- Sheridan's Campaign, 1868-1869 -- 308 -- Modoc War, 1872-1873 -- 310 -- Red River War (Kiowa War), 1874-1875 -- 312 -- Apache War, 1876-1886 -- 314 -- Sioux War for the Black Hills, 1876-1877 -- 320 -- Nez Perce War, 1877 -- 325 -- Bannock War, 1878 -- 328 -- Sheepeater War, 1879 -- 329 -- Ute War, 1879 -- 331 -- Sioux War, 1890-1891 -- 332 -- Chapter 10 Spanish-American War and Other Imperialist Conflicts -- 335 -- Walker's Invasion of Mexico, 1853-1854 -- 336 -- Walker's Invasion of Nicaragua, 1855-1857 -- 337 -- Philippine Insurrection, 1896-1898 -- 338 -- Spanish-American War, 1898 -- 339 -- Philippine Insurrection, 1899-1902 -- 351 -- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901 -- 352 -- Moro Wars, 1901-1913 -- 357 -- Panamanian Revolution, 1903 -- 359 -- Nicaraguan Civil War, 1909-1912 -- 361 -- Villa's Raids (and the Pershing Punitive Expedition), 1916-1917 -- 363 -- Nicaraguan Civil War, 1925-1933 -- 366 -- Chapter 11 World War I, 1914-1918 -- 368 -- Chapter 12 World War II, 1939-1945 -- 383 -- Chapter 13 Korean War, 1950-1953 -- 441 -- Chapter 14 Vietnam War, 1954-1975 -- 459 -- Chapter 15 Cold War Conflicts since 1958 -- 489 -- Lebanese Civil War, 1958 -- 490 -- Lebanese Civil War, 1975-1992 -- 491 -- Nicaraguan Civil War, 1978-1979 -- 494 -- Honduran Guerrilla War, 1981-1990 -- 495 -- Nicaraguan Civil War, 1982-1990 -- 496 -- Grenada Intervention, 1983 -- 499 -- U.S. Invasion of Panama (Operation Just Cause), 1989 -- 501 -- Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- 503 -- War in Bosnia, 1992-1995 -- 508 -- Somalian Civil War, 1988- -- 511 -- Kosovo Crisis, 1996-1999 -- 513 -- Epilogue: "The First War of the Twenty-First Century" -- 515.