Spanning more than 500 years of military events, the book begins its coverage with the Battle of Mabila in 1540 during the Age of Discovery and ends with the Second Battle of Falluja during the Iraq War/Insurgency in 2004. The 100 battles spotlighted in this work are deemed to have had the greatest impact on American history.

Battle of Mabila (October 18, 1540) -- Destruction of Fort Caroline (September 20, 1565) -- Battle of Acoma Pueblo (January 22-24, 1599) -- Jamestown Massacre (March 22, 1622) -- Capture of Quebec (July 19, 1629) -- Mystic Fort Fight (May 26, 1637) -- Great Swamp Fight (December 19, 1675) -- Pueblo Revolt ( August 10-21, 1680) -- Siege of Port Royal (September 24-October 15, 1710) -- Quebec Expedition (June 25-August 23, 1711) -- Yamasee War (April 15, 1715-November 1717) -- Bloody Marsh (July 18, 1742) -- Battles of Jumonville Glen and Fort Necessity (May 28 and July 3, 1754) -- Battle of Monongahela (July 9, 1755) -- Battle of the Plains of Abrahm (September 13, 1759) -- Battles of Lexington and Concord (April 19, 1775) -- Capture of Fort Ticonderoga (May 10, 1775) -- Battle of Bunker Hill (June 17, 1775) -- Canada Campaign (August 1775-July 1776) -- Battles of Lake Champlain / Valcour Island (October 11 and 13, 1776) -- Battles of Trenton and Princeton (December 26, 1776, and January 3, 1777) -- Battles of Saratoga (September 19 and October 7, 1777) -- Battles of Kaskaskia and Vincennes (July 4, 1778, and February 23-25, 1779) -- Battle of Kings Mountain (October 7, 1780) -- Battle of Cowpens (January 17, 1781) -- Battle of Guilford Courthouse (March 15, 1781) -- Battle of Chesaapake (September 5, 1781) -- Siege of Yorktown (September 28-October 19 1781) -- St. Clair's Defeat (November 4, 1791) -- Battle of Fallen Timbers (August 20, 1794) -- Battle of Tippecanoe (November 7, 1811) -- Siege of Detroit (August 16, 1812) -- Battle of Lake Erie (September 10, 1813) -- Battle of Thames (October 5, 1813) -- Battle of Horseshoe Bend (March 27, 1814) -- Battle of Chippawa (July 5, 1814) -- Battle of Bladensburg (August 24, 1814) -- Battle of Plattsburgh (September 11, 1814) -- Battle of New Orleans (January 8, 1815) -- Battle of the Alamo (February 23-March 6 1836) -- Battle of San Jacinto (April 21, 1836) -- Battle of Buena Vista (February 22-23, 1847) -- Siege of Veracruz (March 9-29, 1847) -- Battle of Cerro Gordo (April 17-18, 1847) -- Battle for Mexico City (September 8-14, 1847) -- Battle of Fort Sumter (April 12-14, 1861) -- First Battle of Bull Run (July 21, 1861) -- Battle of Hampton Roads ( March 8-9, 1862) -- Jackson's Shenandoah Valley Campaign (March 23-June 9, 1862) -- Battle of Shiloh (April 6-7, 1862) -- Seven Days' Campaign (June 25-July 1, 1862) -- Battle of Antietam (September 17, 1862) -- Battle of Chancellorsville (May 1-4, 1863) -- Siege of Vicksburg (May 18-July 4, 1863) -- Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863) -- Overland Campaign (May 4-June 12, 1864) -- Atlanta Campaign (May5-September 2, 1864) -- Siege of Petesburg (June 15, 1864-April 3, 1865) -- Battles of Franklin and Nashville (November 30 and December 15-16, 1864) -- Red Cloud's War (1866-1868) -- Battle of Palo Duro Canyon (September 28, 1874) -- Battle of Little Bighorn (June 25-26, 1876) -- Battle of Wounded Knee (December 29, 1890) -- Battle of Manila Bay (May 1, 1898) -- Battle of Kettle Hill (July 1, 1898) -- Second Battle of the Marne (July 15-18, 1918) -- Saint-Mihiel Offensive (September 12-16, 1918) -- Meuse-Argonne Offensive (September 26-November 11, 1918) -- Attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941) -- Battle of Bataan (December 8, April 9, 1942) -- Battle of the Coral Sea (May 7-8, 1942) -- Battle of Midway (June 3-6, 1942) -- Battle of Guadalcanal (August 7, 1942-February 7, 1943) -- Operation Torch (November 8, 1942) -- Operation Husky (July 9-August 22, 1943) -- Schweinfurt-Regensburg Raids (August 17 and October 14, 1943) -- Battle of Tarawa (November 20-24, 1943) -- Invasion of Normandy (June 6, 1944) -- Battle of Philippine Sea (June 19-21, 1944) -- Operation Cobra (July 25-31, 1944) -- Battle of Leyte Gulf (October 23-26, 1944) -- Battle of the Bulge (December 16, 1944-January 16, 1945) -- Tokyo Raid (March 9-10, 1945) -- Battle of Okinawa (April 1-June 21, 1945) -- Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings (August 6 and 9, 1945) -- U.S. Submarine Campaign against Japanese Shipping (December 1941-August 1945) -- Pusan Perimeter Defense and Breakout (August 5-September 23, 1950) -- Inchon Landing (September 15, 1950) -- Battle of Chipyong-ni (February 13-15, 1951) -- Ia Drang Valley Campaign (October 19-November 20, 1965) -- Tet Offensive (January 30-March 28, 1968) -- Cambodian Incursion (April 29-July 22, 1970) -- Operation Linebacker II (December 18-29, 1972) -- Operation Desert Shield, Air Campaign (January 17-February 28, 1991) -- Operation Desert Storm, Ground Campaign (February 24-28, 1991) -- Battle of 73 Easting (February 26, 1991) -- Battle of Mogadishu (October 3, 1993) -- Operation Enduring Freedom (October 7-December 17, 2001) -- Battle of Baghdad (April 5-10, 2003) -- Second Battle of Fallujah (November 7-December 23, 2004).