Please, I hope the list is not too long.
[quote]1775-1800
1775-1783 - American Revolutionary War
1776-1777 - Second Cherokee War
1776-1794 - Chickamauga Wars
1785-1795 - Northwest Indian War
1786-1787 - Shays' Rebellion
1794 - Whiskey Rebellion
1798-1800 - Quasi-War, an undeclared naval war with France. This contest included land actions, such as that in the Dominican Republic city of Puerto Plata, where U.S. Marines captured a French privateer under the guns of the forts. Congress authorized military action through a series of statutes.[1]
1799-1800 - Fries's Rebellion, a Pennsylvania protest against war taxes.
[edit]1800-1809
1801-1805 - First Barbary War - USS George Washington and USS Philadelphia affairs result in actions against the Barbary pirates responsible. In the Eaton expedition, a few Marines and soldiers landed with United States Agent William Eaton to raise a force against Tripoli in an effort to free the crew of the Philadelphia. Tripoli declared war; the United States did not, although Congress authorized military action by statute.[1]
1806 – Spanish Mexico - A platoon under Captain Zebulon Pike invaded Spanish territory at the headwaters of the Rio Grande on orders from General James Wilkinson. He was made prisoner without resistance at a fort he constructed in present-day Colorado, taken to Mexico, and later released after seizure of his papers.[RL30172]
1806-10 – Gulf of Mexico. American gunboats operated from New Orleans against Spanish and French privateers off the Mississippi Delta, chiefly under Captain John Shaw and Master Commandant David Porter.[1]
[edit]1810-1819
1810 – West Florida (Spanish territory). Governor William C.C. Claiborne of Louisiana, on orders of President James Madison, occupied with troops territory in dispute east of the Mississippi as far as the Pearl River, later the eastern boundary of Louisiana. He was authorized to seize as far east as the Perdido River.[RL30172]
1812 – Amelia Island and other parts of east Florida, then under Spain. Temporary possession was authorized by President James Madison and by Congress, to prevent occupation by any other power; but possession was obtained by General George Mathews in so irregular a manner that his measures were disavowed by the President.[RL30172]
1812-15 – War of 1812. On June 18, 1812, the United States declared war against the United Kingdom. Among the issues leading to the war were British impressment of American sailors into the Royal Navy, interception of neutral ships and blockades of the United States during British hostilities with France. [RL30172]
1813 – West Florida (Spanish territory). On authority given by Congress, General Wilkinson seized Mobile Bay in April with 600 soldiers. A small Spanish garrison gave way. Thus U.S. troops advanced into disputed territory to the Perdido River, as projected in 1810. No fighting.[RL30172]
1813-14 – Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia). U.S. forces built a fort on the island of Nuku Hiva to protect three prize ships which had been captured from the British.[RL30172]
1814 – Spanish Florida. General Andrew Jackson took Pensacola and drove out the British forces.[RL30172]
1814-25 – Caribbean. Engagements between pirates and American ships or squadrons took place repeatedly especially ashore and offshore about Cuba, Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo, and Yucatan. Three thousand pirate attacks on merchantmen were reported between 1815 and 1823. In 1822, Commodore James Biddle employed a squadron of two frigates, four sloops of war, two brigs, four schooners, and two gunboats in the West Indies.[RL30172]
1815 – Algiers. The Second Barbary War was declared against the United States by the Dey of Algiers of the Barbary states, an act not reciprocated by the United States. Congress did authorize a military expedition by statute. A large fleet under Captain Stephen Decatur attacked Algiers and obtained indemnities.[RL30172]
1815 – Tripoli. After securing an agreement from Algiers, Captain Decatur demonstrated with his squadron at Tunis and Tripoli, where he secured indemnities for offenses during the War of 1812.[RL30172]
1816 – Spanish Florida. United States forces destroyed Negro Fort, which harbored fugitive slaves making raids into United States territory.[RL30172]
1816-18 – Spanish Florida - First Seminole War. The Seminole Indians, whose area was a haven for escaped slaves and border ruffians, were attacked by troops under General Jackson and General Edmund P. Gaines and pursued into northern Florida. Spanish posts were attacked and occupied, British citizens executed. In 1819 the Floridas were ceded to the United States.[RL30172]
1817 – Amelia Island (Spanish territory off Florida). Under orders of President James Monroe, United States forces landed and expelled a group of smugglers, adventurers, and freebooters.[RL30172]
1818 – Oregon. The USS Ontario dispatched from Washington, which made a landing at the mouth of the Columbia River to assert US claims. Britain had conceded sovereignty but Russia and Spain asserted claims to the area.[RL30172] Subsequently, American and British claims to the Oregon Country were resolved with the Oregon Treaty of 1846.[RL30172]
[edit]1820-1829
1820-23 – Africa. Naval units raided the slave traffic pursuant to the 1819 act of Congress. [RL30172][Slave Traffic]
1822 – Cuba. United States naval forces suppressing piracy landed on the northwest coast of Cuba and burned a pirate station.[RL30172]
1823 – Cuba. Brief landings in pursuit of pirates occurred April 8 near Escondido; April 16 near Cayo Blanco; July 11 at Siquapa Bay; July 21 at Cape Cruz; and October 23 at Camrioca.[RL30172]
1824 – Cuba. In October the USS Porpoise landed bluejackets near Matanzas in pursuit of pirates. This was during the cruise authorized in 1822.[RL30172]
1824 – Puerto Rico (Spanish territory). Commodore David Porter with a landing party attacked the town of Fajardo which had sheltered pirates and insulted American naval officers. He landed with 200 men in November and forced an apology. Commodore Porter was later court-martialed for overstepping his powers.[RL30172]
1825 – Cuba. In March cooperating American and British forces landed at Sagua La Grande to capture pirates.[RL30172]
1827 – Greece. In October and November landing parties hunted pirates on the Mediterranean islands of Argenteire, Myconos, and Andros.[RL30172]
[edit]1830-1839
1831-32 – Falkland Islands. Captain Silas Duncan of the USS Lexington investigated the capture of three American sailing vessels and sought to protect American interests.[RL30172]
1832 – Attack on Quallah Battoo, Sumatra, Indonesia - February 6–9. U.S. forces under Commodore John Downes aboard the frigate USS Potomac landed and stormed a fort to punish natives of the town of Quallah Battoo for plundering the American cargo ship Friendship.[RL30172]
1833 – Argentina. October 31 to November 15. A force was sent ashore at Buenos Aires to protect the interests of the United States and other countries during an insurrection.[RL30172]
1835-36 – Peru. December 10, 1835, to January 24, 1836, and August 31 to December 7, 1836. Marines protected American interests in Callao and Lima during an attempted revolution.[RL30172]
1835-1842 Florida Territory. United States Navy supports the Army's efforts at quelling uprisings and attacks on civilians by Seminole Indians. Government's efforts to relocate the Seminoles to west of the Mississippi are hindered by 7 years of war.
1836 – Mexico. General James Gaines occupied Nacogdoches, Texas, disputed territory, from July to December during the Texas Revolution, under orders to cross the "imaginary boundary line" if an Indian outbreak threatened.[RL30172]
1838 – The Caroline affair on Navy Island, Canada. After the failure of the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837 favoring Canadian democracy and independence from the British Empire; William Lyon Mackenzie and his rebels fled to Navy Island where they declared the Republic of Canada. American sympathizers sent supplies on the SS Caroline, which was intercepted by the British and set ablaze, after killing one American. It was falsely reported that dozens of Americans were killed as they were trapped on board, and American forces retaliated by burning a British steamer while it was in U.S. waters.
1838-39 – Sumatra (Indonesia). December 24, 1838, to January 4, 1839. A naval force landed to punish natives of the towns of Quallah Battoo and Muckie (Mukki) for depredations on American shipping.[RL30172]
[edit]1840-1849
1840 – Fiji Islands. July. Naval forces landed to punish natives for attacking American exploring and surveying parties.[RL30172]
1841 – McKean Island (Drummond Island/Taputenea), Gilbert Islands (Kingsmill Group), Pacific Ocean. A naval party landed to avenge the murder of a seaman by the natives.[RL30172]
1841 – Samoa. February 24. A naval party landed and burned towns after the murder of an American seaman on Upolu.[RL30172]
1842 – Mexico. Commodore Thomas ap Catesby Jones, in command of a squadron long cruising off California, occupied Monterey, California, on October 19, believing war had come. He discovered peace, withdrew, and saluted. A similar incident occurred a week later at San Diego.[RL30172]
1843 – China. Sailors and marines from the St. Louis were landed after a clash between Americans and Chinese at the trading post in Canton.[RL30172]
1843 – Africa. November 29 to December 16. Four United States vessels demonstrated and landed various parties (one of 200 marines and sailors) to discourage piracy and the slave trade along the Ivory Coast, and to punish attacks by the natives on American seamen and shipping.[RL30172]
1844 – Mexico. President Tyler deployed U.S. forces to protect Texas against Mexico, pending Senate approval of a treaty of annexation. (Later rejected.) He defended his action against a Senate resolution of inquiry.[RL30172]
1846-48 – Mexican-American War On May 13, 1846, the United States recognized the existence of a state of war with Mexico. After the annexation of Texas in 1845, the United States and Mexico failed to resolve a boundary dispute and President Polk said that it was necessary to deploy forces in Mexico to meet a threatened invasion.
The war ended with the 'Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed on February 2, 1848. The 'Treaty' gave the U.S. undisputed control of Texas, established the U.S.-Mexican border of the Rio Grande River, and ceded to the United States the present-day states of California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Wyoming. In return, Mexico received US $18,250,000[34] ($459,127,885 today)—less than half the amount the U.S. had attempted to offer Mexico for the land before the opening of hostilities. [RL30172]
1849 – Smyrna (Izmir, Turkey). In July a naval force gained release of an American seized by Austrian officials.[RL30172]
[edit]1850-1859
1851 – Ottoman Empire. After a massacre of foreigners (including Americans) at Jaffa in January, a demonstration by the Mediterranean Squadron was ordered along the Turkish (Levant) coast.[RL30172]
1851 – Johanns Island (east of Africa). August. Forces from the U.S. sloop-of-war Dale exacted redress for the unlawful imprisonment of the captain of an American whaling brig.[RL30172]
1852-53 – Argentina. February 3 to 12, 1852; September 17, 1852 to April 1853. Marines were landed and maintained in Buenos Aires to protect American interests during a revolution.[RL30172]
1853 – Nicaragua. March 11 to 13. US forces landed to protect American lives and interests during political disturbances[RL30172]
1853-54 – Japan. Commodore Matthew Perry and his expedition made a display of force leading to the "opening of Japan."[RL30172]
1853-54 – Ryūkyū and Bonin Islands (Japan). Commodore Matthew Perry on three visits before going to Japan and while waiting for a reply from Japan made a naval demonstration, landing marines twice, and secured a coaling concession from the ruler of Naha on Okinawa; he also demonstrated in the Bonin Islands with the purpose of securing facilities for commerce.[RL30172]
1854 – China. April 4 to June 15 to 17. American and English ships landed forces to protect American interests in and near Shanghai during Chinese civil strife.[RL30172]
1854 – Nicaragua. July 9 to 15. Naval forces bombarded and burned San Juan del Norte (Greytown) to avenge an insult to the American Minister to Nicaragua.[RL30172]
1855 – China. May 19 to 21. U.S. forces protected American interests in Shanghai and, from August 3 to 5 fought pirates near Hong Kong.[RL30172]
1855 – Fiji Islands. September 12 to November 4. An American naval force landed to seek reparations for attacks on American residents and seamen.[RL30172]
1855 – Uruguay. November 25 to 29. United States and European naval forces landed to protect American interests during an attempted revolution in Montevideo.[RL30172]
1856 – Panama, Republic of New Grenada. September 19 to 22. U.S. forces landed to protect American interests during an insurrection.[RL30172]
1856 – China. October 22 to December 6. U.S. forces landed to protect American interests at Canton during hostilities between the British and the Chinese, and to avenge an assault upon an unarmed boat displaying the United States flag.[RL30172]
1857-58 – Utah War. The Utah War was a dispute between Mormon settlers in Utah Territory and the United States federal government. The Mormons and Washington each sought control over the government of the territory, with the national government victorious. The confrontation between the Mormon militia and the U.S. Army involved some destruction of property, but no actual battles between the contending military forces.
1857 – Nicaragua. April to May, November to December. In May Commander Charles Henry Davis of the United States Navy, with some marines, received the surrender of William Walker, self-proclaimed president of Nicaragua, who was losing control of the country to forces financed by his former business partner, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and protected his men from the retaliation of native allies who had been fighting Walker. In November and December of the same year United States vessels USS Saratoga, USS Wabash, and Fulton opposed another attempt of William Walker on Nicaragua. Commodore Hiram Paulding's act of landing marines and compelling the removal of Walker to the United States, was tacitly disavowed by Secretary of State Lewis Cass, and Paulding was forced into retirement.[RL30172]
1858 – Uruguay. January 2 to 27. Forces from two United States warships landed to protect American property during a revolution in Montevideo.[RL30172]
1858 – Fiji Islands. October 6 to 16. A marine expedition with the USS Vandalia enacted revenge on natives for the murder of two American citizens at Waya.[RL30172] [] [Vandalia 2]
1858-59 – Ottoman Empire. The Secretary of State requested a display of naval force along the Levant after a massacre of Americans at Jaffa and mistreatment elsewhere "to remind the authorities (of the Ottoman Empire) of the power of the United States."[RL30172]
1859 – Paraguay. Congress authorized a naval squadron to seek redress for an attack on a naval vessel in the Parana River during 1855. Apologies were made after a large display of force.[RL30172]
1859 – Mexico. Two hundred United States soldiers crossed the Rio Grande in pursuit of the Mexican nationalist Juan Cortina.[RL30172] [1859 Mexico]
1859 – China. July 31 to August 2. A naval force landed to protect American interests in Shanghai.[RL30172]
[edit]1860-1869
1860 – Angola, Portuguese West Africa. March 1. American residents at Kissembo called upon American and British ships to protect lives and property during problems with natives.[RL30172]
1860 – Colombia, Bay of Panama. September 27 to October 8. Naval forces landed to protect American interests during a revolution.[RL30172]
1861-1865 – American Civil War A major war between the United States (the Union) and eleven Southern states which declared that they had a right to secession and formed the Confederate States of America.
1863 – Japan. July 16. Naval battle of Shimonoseki. The USS Wyoming retaliated against a firing on the American vessel Pembroke at Shimonoseki.[RL30172]
1864 – Japan. July 14 to August 3. Naval forces protected the United States Minister to Japan when he visited Yedo to negotiate concerning some American claims against Japan, and to make his negotiations easier by impressing the Japanese with American power.[RL30172]
1864 – Japan. September 4 to 14. Naval forces of the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Netherlands compelled Japan and the Prince of Nagato in particular to permit the Straits of Shimonoseki to be used by foreign shipping in accordance with treaties already signed.[RL30172]
1865 – Panama. March 9 and 10. US forces protected the lives and property of American residents during a revolution.[RL30172]
1865-1877 Southern United States – Reconstruction following the American Civil War. The South is divided into five Union occupation districts under the Reconstruction Act.
1866 – Mexico. To protect American residents, General Sedgwick and 100 men in November obtained surrender of Matamoros, on the border State of Tamaulipas. After three days he was ordered by US Government to withdraw. His act was repudiated by the President.[RL30172]
1866 – China. June 20 to July 7. US forces punished an assault on the American consul at Newchwang.[RL30172]
1867 – Nicaragua. Marines occupied Managua and Leon.
1867 – Formosa (island of Taiwan) June 13. A naval force landed and burned a number of huts to punish the murder of the crew of a wrecked American vessel.
1868 – Japan (Osaka, Hiolo, Nagasaki, Yokohama, and Negata). - February 4 to 8, April 4 to May 12, June 12 and 13. US forces were landed to protect American interests during the civil war in Japan.[RL30172]
1868 – Uruguay. February 7 and 8, 19 to 26. US forces protected foreign residents and the customhouse during an insurrection at Montevideo.[RL30172]
1868 – Colombia. April. US forces protected passengers and treasure in transit at Aspinwall during the absence of local police or troops on the occasion of the death of the President of Colombia.[RL30172]
[edit]1870-1879
1870 – Mexico. June 17 and 18. US forces destroyed the pirate ship Forward, which had been run aground about 40 miles up the Rio Tecapan.[RL30172]
1870 – Kingdom of Hawaii. September 21. US forces placed the American flag at half-mast upon the death of Queen Kalama, when the American consul at Honolulu would not assume responsibility for so doing.[RL30172]
1871 – Korea. Shinmiyangyo. June 10 to 12. A US naval force attacked and captured five forts to force stalled negotiations on trade agreements and to punish natives for depredations on Americans, particularly for executing the crew of the General Sherman and burning the schooner(which in turn happened because the crew had stolen food and kidnapped a Korean official), and for later firing on other American small boats taking soundings up the Salee River. [RL30172]
1873 – Colombia (Bay of Panama). May 7 to 22, September 23 to October 9. U.S. forces protected American interests during hostilities between local groups over control of the government of the State of Panama.[RL30172]
1873-96 – Mexico. United States troops crossed the Mexican border repeatedly in pursuit of cattle and other thieves and other brigands.[RL30172]
1874 – Kingdom of Hawaii. February 12 to 20. Detachments from American vessels were landed to protect the interests of Americans living in the Kingdom during the coronation of a new king.[RL30172]
1876 – Mexico. May 18. An American force was landed to police the town of Matamoros, Tamaulipas State, temporarily while it was without other government.[RL30172]
[edit]1880-1889
1882 – Egypt. July 14 to 18. American forces landed to protect American interests during warfare between British and Egyptians and looting of the city of Alexandria by Arabs.[RL30172]
1885 – Panama (Colon). January 18 and 19. US forces were used to guard the valuables in transit over the Panama Railroad, and the safes and vaults of the company during revolutionary activity. In March, April, and May in the cities of Colon and Panama, the forces helped reestablish freedom of transit during revolutionary activity.[RL30172]
1888 – Korea. June. A naval force was sent ashore to protect American residents in Seoul during unsettled political conditions, when an outbreak of the populace was expected.[RL30172]
1888 – Haiti. December 20. A display of force persuaded the Haitian Government to give up an American steamer which had been seized on the charge of breach of blockade.[RL30172]
1888-89 – Samoa. November 14, 1888, to March 20, 1889. US forces were landed to protect American citizens and the consulate during a native civil war.[RL30172]
1889 – Kingdom of Hawaii. July 30 and 31. US forces at Honolulu protected the interests of Americans living in Hawaii during an American led revolution.[RL30172]
[edit]1890-1899
1890 – Argentina. A naval party landed to protect US consulate and legation in Buenos Aires.[RL30172]
1890 – South Dakota. December 29. Soldiers of the US Army 7th Cavalry killed 178 Sioux Amerindians following an incident over a disarmament-inspection at a Lakota Sioux encampment near Wounded Knee Creek. 89 other Amerinds were injured, 150 were reported missing; Army casualties were 25 killed, 39 wounded.[citation needed]
1891 – Haiti. US forces sought to protect American lives and property on Navassa Island.[RL30172]
1891 – Bering Strait. July 2 to October 5. Naval forces sought to stop seal poaching.[RL30172]
1891 – Chile. August 28 to 30. US forces protected the American consulate and the women and children who had taken refuge in it during a revolution in Valparaiso.[RL30172]
1893 – overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom. January 16 to April 1. Marines landed in Hawaii, ostensibly to protect American lives and property, but many believed actually to promote a provisional government under Sanford B. Dole. This action was disavowed by President Cleveland, and eventually the United States apologized in 1993.[RL30172]
1894 – Brazil. January. A display of naval force sought to protect American commerce and shipping at Rio de Janeiro during a Brazilian civil war.[RL30172]
1894 – Nicaragua. July 6 to August 7. US forces sought to protect American interests at Bluefields following a revolution.[RL30172]
1894-95 – China. Marines were stationed at Tientsin and penetrated to Peking for protection purposes during the First Sino-Japanese War.[RL30172]
1894-95 – China. A naval vessel was beached and used as a fort at Newchwang for protection of American nationals.[RL30172]
1894-96 – Korea. July 24, 1894 to April 3, 1896. A guard of marines was sent to protect the American legation and American lives and interests at Seoul during and following the Sino-Japanese War.[RL30172]
1895 – Colombia. March 8 and 9. US forces protected American interests during an attack on the town of Bocas del Toro by a bandit chieftain.[RL30172]
1895-96 – Venezuela. Settlement of boundary dispute.[citation needed]
1896 – Nicaragua. May 2 to 4. US forces protected American interests in Corinto during political unrest.[RL30172]
1898 – Nicaragua. February 7 and 8. US forces protected American lives and property at San Juan del Sur.[RL30172]
1898 – Spanish-American War On April 25, 1898, the United States declared war with Spain. The war followed a Cuban insurrection, the Cuban War of Independence against Spanish rule and the sinking of the USS Maine in the harbor at Havana.[RL30172]
1898-99 – Samoa. Second Samoan Civil War a conflict that reached a head in 1898 when Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States were locked in dispute over who should have control over the Samoan island chain.
1898-99 – China. November 5, 1898 to March 15, 1899. US forces provided a guard for the legation at Peking and the consulate at Tientsin during contest between the Dowager Empress and her son.[RL30172]
1899 – Nicaragua. American and British naval forces were landed to protect national interests at San Juan del Norte, February 22 to March 5, and at Bluefields a few weeks later in connection with the insurrection of Gen. Juan P. Reyes.[RL30172]
1899-1913 – Philippine Islands. Philippine-American War US forces protected American interests following the war with Spain, defeating rebellious Filipinos seeking immediate national independence.[RL30172] The U.S. government declared the "insurgency" officially over in 1902, when the Filipino leadership generally accepted American rule. Skirmishes between government troops and armed groups lasted until 1913, and some historians consider these unofficial extensions of the war.[2]
[edit]1900-1909
1900 – China. May 24 to September 28. Boxer Rebellion American troops participated in operations to protect foreign lives during the Boxer rising, particularly at Peking. For many years after this experience a permanent legation guard was maintained in Peking, and was strengthened at times as trouble threatened.[RL30172]
1901 – Colombia (State of Panama). November 20 to December 4. (See: Separation of Panama from Colombia) US forces protected American property on the Isthmus and kept transit lines open during serious revolutionary disturbances.[RL30172]
1902 – Colombia. - April 16 to 23. US forces protected American lives and property at Bocas del Toro during a civil war.[RL30172]
1902 – Colombia (State of Panama). September 17 to November 18. The United States placed armed guards on all trains crossing the Isthmus to keep the railroad line open, and stationed ships on both sides of Panama to prevent the landing of Colombian troops.[RL30172]
1903 – Honduras. March 23 to 30 or 31. US forces protected the American consulate and the steamship wharf at Puerto Cortes during a period of revolutionary activity.[RL30172]
1903 – Dominican Republic. March 30 to April 21. A detachment of marines was landed to protect American interests in the city of Santo Domingo during a revolutionary outbreak.[RL30172]
1903 – Syria. September 7 to 12. US forces protected the American consulate in Beirut when a local Muslim uprising was feared.[RL30172]
1903-04 – Abyssinia (Ethiopia). Twenty-five Marines were sent to Abyssinia to protect the US Consul General while he negotiated a treaty.[RL30172]
1903-14 – Panama. US forces sought to protect American interests and lives during and following the revolution for independence from Colombia over construction of the Isthmian Canal. With brief intermissions, United States Marines were stationed on the Isthmus from November 4, 1903, to January 21, 1914 to guard American interests.[RL30172]
1904 – Dominican Republic. January 2 to February 11. American and British naval forces established an area in which no fighting would be allowed and protected American interests in Puerto Plata and Sosua and Santo Domingo City during revolutionary fighting.[RL30172]
1904 – Tangier, Morocco. "We want either Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead." A squadron demonstrated to force release of a kidnapped American. Marines were landed to protect the consul general.[RL30172]
1904 – Panama. November 17 to 24. U.S forces protected American lives and property at Ancon at the time of a threatened insurrection.[RL30172]
1904-05 – Korea. January 5, 1904, to November 11, 1905. A guard of Marines was sent to protect the American legation in Seoul during the Russo-Japanese War.[RL30172]
1906-09 – Cuba. September 1906 to January 23, 1909. US forces sought to protect interests and re-establish a government after revolutionary activity.[RL30172]
1907 – Honduras. March 18 to June 8. To protect American interests during a war between Honduras and Nicaragua, troops were stationed in Trujillo, Ceiba, Puerto Cortes, San Pedro Sula, Laguna and Choloma.[RL30172]
[edit]1910-1919
1910 – Nicaragua. May 19 to September 4, 1910. Occupation of Nicaragua US forces protected American interests at Bluefields.[RL30172]
1911 – Honduras. January 26. American naval detachments were landed to protect American lives and interests during a civil war in Honduras.[RL30172]
1911 – China. As the Tongmenghui-led Xinhai Revolution approached, in October an ensign and 10 men tried to enter Wuchang to rescue missionaries but retired on being warned away, and a small landing force guarded American private property and consulate at Hankow. Marines were deployed in November to guard the cable stations at Shanghai; landing forces were sent for protection in Nanking, Chinkiang, Taku and elsewhere.[RL30172]
1912 – Honduras. A small force landed to prevent seizure by the government of an American-owned railroad at Puerto Cortes. The forces were withdrawn after the United States disapproved the action.[RL30172]
1912 – Panama. Troops, on request of both political parties, supervised elections outside the Panama Canal Zone.[RL30172]
1912 – Cuba. June 5 to August 5. U.S. forces protected American interests in the province of Oriente and in Havana.[RL30172]
1912 – China. August 24 to 26, on Kentucky Island, and August 26 to 30 at Camp Nicholson. US forces protected Americans and American interests during the Xinhai Revolution.[RL30172]
1912 – Turkey. November 18 to December 3. U.S. forces guarded the American legation at Constantinople during the First Balkan War[RL30172]
1912-25 – Nicaragua. August to November 1912. U.S. forces protected American interests during an attempted revolution. A small force, serving as a legation guard and seeking to promote peace and stability, remained until August 5, 1925.[RL30172]
1912-41 – China. The disorders which began with the overthrow of the dynasty during Kuomintang rebellion in 1912, which were redirected by the invasion of China by Japan, led to demonstrations and landing parties for the protection of US interests in China continuously and at many points from 1912 on to 1941. The guard at Peking and along the route to the sea was maintained until 1941. In 1927, the United States had 5,670 troops ashore in China and 44 naval vessels in its waters. In 1933 the United States had 3,027 armed men ashore. The protective action was generally based on treaties with China concluded from 1858 to 1901.[RL30172]
1913 – Mexico. September 5 to 7. A few marines landed at Ciaris Estero to aid in evacuating American citizens and others from the Yaqui Valley, made dangerous for foreigners by civil strife.[RL30172]
1914 – Haiti. January 29 to February 9, February 20 and 21, October 19. Intermittently US naval forces protected American nationals in a time of rioting and revolution.[RL30172] The specific order from the Secretary of the Navy to the invasion commander, Admiral William Deville Bundy, was to "protect American and foreign" interests.[citation needed]
1914 – Dominican Republic. June and July. During a revolutionary movement, United States naval forces by gunfire stopped the bombardment of Puerto Plata, and by threat of force maintained Santo Domingo City as a neutral zone.[RL30172]
1914-17 – Mexico. Tampico Affair led to Occupation of Veracruz, Mexico. Undeclared Mexican-American hostilities followed the Tampico Affair and Villa's raids . Also Pancho Villa Expedition) – an abortive military operation conducted by the United States Army against the military forces of Francisco "Pancho" Villa from 1916 to 1917 and included capture of Vera Cruz. On March 19, 1915 on orders from President Woodrow Wilson, and with tacit consent by Venustiano Carranza General John J. Pershing led an invasion force of 10,000 men into Mexico to capture Villa.[RL30172]
1915-34 – Haiti. July 28, 1915, to August 15, 1934. United States occupation of Haiti 1915-1934 US forces maintained order during a period of chronic political instability.[RL30172] During the initial entrance into Haiti, the specific order from the Secretary of the Navy to the invasion commander, Admiral William Deville Bundy, was to "protect American and foreign" interests.[citation needed]
1916 – China. American forces landed to quell a riot taking place on American property in Nanking.[RL30172]
1916-24 – Dominican Republic. May 1916 to September 1924. Occupation of the Dominican Republic American naval forces maintained order during a period of chronic and threatened insurrection.[RL30172]
1917 – China. American troops were landed at Chungking to protect American lives during a political crisis.[RL30172]
1917-18 – World War I. On April 6, 1917, the United States declared war with Germany and on December 7, 1917, with Austria-Hungary. Entrance of the United States into the war was precipitated by Germany's submarine warfare against neutral shipping and the Zimmermann Telegram.[RL30172]
1917-22 – Cuba. US forces protected American interests during insurrection and subsequent unsettled conditions. Most of the United States armed forces left Cuba by August 1919, but two companies remained at Camaguey until February 1922.[RL30172]
1918-19 – Mexico. After withdrawal of the Pershing expedition, U.S. troops entered Mexico in pursuit of bandits at least three times in 1918 and six times in 1919. In August 1918 American and Mexican troops fought at Nogales, The Battle of Ambos Nogales. The incident began when German spies plotted an attack with Mexican soldiers on Nogales Arizona. The fighting began when a Mexican officer shot and killed a U.S. soldier on American soil. A full scale battle then ensued, ending with a Mexican surrender.[RL30172]
1918-20 – Panama. US forces were used for police duty according to treaty stipulations, at Chiriqui, during election disturbances and subsequent unrest.[RL30172]
1918-20 – Soviet Union. Marines were landed at and near Vladivostok in June and July to protect the American consulate and other points in the fighting between the Bolshevik troops and the Czech Army which had traversed Siberia from the western front. A joint proclamation of emergency government and neutrality was issued by the American, Japanese, British, French, and Czech commanders in July. In August 7,000 men were landed in Vladivostok and remained until January 1920, as part of an allied occupation force. In September 1918, 5,000 American troops joined the allied intervention force at Archangel and remained until June 1919. These operations were in response to the Bolshevik revolution in Russia and were partly supported by Czarist or Kerensky elements. [RL30172] For details, see the American Expeditionary Force Siberia and the American Expeditionary Force North Russia.
1919 – Dalmatia (Croatia). US forces were landed at Trau at the request of Italian authorities to police order between the Italians and Serbs.[RL30172]
1919 – Turkey. Marines from the USS Arizona were landed to guard the US Consulate during the Greek occupation of Constantinople.[RL30172]
1919 – Honduras. September 8 to 12. A landing force was sent ashore to maintain order in a neutral zone during an attempted revolution.[RL30172]
[edit]1920-1929
1920 – China. March 14. A landing force was sent ashore for a few hours to protect lives during a disturbance at Kiukiang.[RL30172]
1920 – Guatemala. April 9 to 27. US forces protected the American Legation and other American interests, such as the cable station, during a period of fighting between Unionists and the Government of Guatemala.[RL30172]
1920-22 – Russia (Siberia). February 16, 1920, to November 19, 1922. A Marine guard was sent to protect the United States radio station and property on Russian Island, Bay of Vladivostok.[RL30172]
1921 – Panama and Costa Rica. American naval squadrons demonstrated in April on both sides of the Isthmus to prevent war between the two countries over a boundary dispute.[RL30172]
1922 – Turkey. September and October. A landing force was sent ashore with consent of both Greek and Turkish authorities, to protect American lives and property when the Turkish nationalists entered İzmir (Smyrna.[RL30172]
1922-23 – China. April 1922 to November 1923. Marines were landed five times to protect Americans during periods of unrest.[RL30172]
1924 – Honduras. February 28 to March 31, September 10 to 15. U.S. forces protected American lives and interests during election hostilities.[RL30172]
1924 – China. - September. Marines were landed to protect Americans and other foreigners in Shanghai during Chinese factional hostilities.[RL30172]
1925 – China. January 15 to August 29. Fighting of Chinese factions accompanied by riots and demonstrations in Shanghai brought the landing of American forces to protect lives and property in the International Settlement.[RL30172]
1925 – Honduras. April 19 to 21. U.S. forces protected foreigners at La Ceiba during a political upheaval.[RL30172]
1925 – Panama. October 12 to 23. Strikes and rent riots led to the landing of about 600 American troops to keep order and protect American interests. [RL30172]
1926-33 – Nicaragua. May 7 to June 5, 1926, and August 27, 1926, to January 3, 1933. The coup d'état of General Chamorro aroused revolutionary activities leading to the landing of American marines to protect the interests of the United States. United States forces came and went intermittently until January 3, 1933.[RL30172]
1926 – China. August and September. The Nationalist attack on Hankow brought the landing of American naval forces to protect American citizens. A small guard was maintained at the consulate general even after September 16, when the rest of the forces were withdrawn. Likewise, when Nationalist forces captured Kiukiang, naval forces were landed for the protection of foreigners November 4 to 6.[RL30172]
1927 – China. February. Fighting at Shanghai caused American naval forces and marines to be increased. In March a naval guard was stationed at American consulate at Nanking after Nationalist forces captured the city. American and British destroyers later used shell fire to protect Americans and other foreigners. Subsequently additional forces of marines and naval forces were stationed in the vicinity of Shanghai and Tientsin.[RL30172]
[edit]1930-1939
1932 – China. American forces were landed to protect American interests during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai.[RL30172]
1933 – Cuba. During a revolution against President Gerardo Machado naval forces demonstrated but no landing was made.[RL30172]
1934 – China. Marines landed at Foochow to protect the American Consulate.[RL30172]
[edit]1940-1945
1940 – Newfoundland, Bermuda, St. Lucia, - Bahamas, Jamaica, Antigua, Trinidad, and British Guiana. Troops were sent to guard air and naval bases obtained under lease by negotiation with the United Kingdom. These were sometimes called lend-lease bases but were under the Destroyers for Bases Agreement.[RL30172]
1941 – Greenland. Greenland was taken under protection of the United States in April.[RL30172]
1941 – Netherlands (Dutch Guiana). In November the President ordered American troops to occupy Dutch Guiana, but by agreement with the Netherlands government in exile, Brazil cooperated to protect aluminum ore supply from the bauxite mines in Suriname.[RL30172]
1941 – Iceland. Iceland was taken under the protection of the United States, with consent of its government replacing British troops, for strategic reasons.[RL30172]
1941 – Germany. Sometime in the spring the President ordered the Navy to patrol ship lanes to Europe. By July US warships were convoying and by September were attacking German submarines. In November, the Neutrality Act was partly repealed to protect US military aid to Britain. [RL30172]
1941-45 – World War II. On December 8, 1941, the United States declared war with Japan in response to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The US declared war against Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Italy and Romania in response to the declarations of war by those nations against the United States.[RL30172]
1945 – China. In October 50,000 US Marines were sent to North China to assist Chinese Nationalist authorities in disarming and repatriating the Japanese in China and in controlling ports, railroads, and airfields. This was in addition to approximately 60,000 US forces remaining in China at the end of World War II.[RL30172]
[edit]1945-1949
1945-49 – Occupation of part of Germany.
1945-55 – Occupation of part of Austria.
1945-46 Occupation of part of Italy.[citation needed]
1945-52 – Occupation of Japan.
1944-46 – Temporary reoccupation of the Philippines during WWII and in preparation for previously scheduled independence.[citation needed]
1945-49 – Occupation of South Korea and defeat of a leftist insurgency.[citation needed]
1946 – Trieste (Italy). President Truman ordered the increase of US troops along the zonal occupation line and the reinforcement of air forces in northern Italy after Yugoslav forces shot down an unarmed US Army transport plane flying over Venezia Giulia, [citation needed] Earlier US naval units had been sent to the scene.[RL30172] Later the Free Territory of Trieste, Zone A.
1945-47 – US Marines garrisoned in mainland China to oversee the removal of Soviet and Japanese forces after World War II.[3]
1948 – Palestine. A marine consular guard was sent to Jerusalem to protect the US Consul General.[RL30172]
1948 – Berlin. Berlin Airlift After the Soviet Union established a land blockade of the US, British, and French sectors of Berlin on June 24, 1948, the United States and its allies airlifted supplies to Berlin until after the blockade was lifted in May 1949.[RL30172]
1948-49 – China. Marines were dispatched to Nanking to protect the American Embassy when the city fell to Communist troops, and to Shanghai to aid in the protection and evacuation of Americans.[RL30172]
[edit]1950-1959
1950-53 – Korean War. The United States responded to North Korean invasion of South Korea by going to its assistance, pursuant to United Nations Security Council resolutions. US forces deployed in Korea exceeded 300,000 during the last year of the conflict. Over 36,600 US military were killed in action.[RL30172]
1950-55 – Formosa (Taiwan). In June 1950 at the beginning of the Korean War, President Truman ordered the US Seventh Fleet to prevent Chinese Communist attacks upon Formosa and Chinese Nationalist operations against mainland China.[RL30172]
1954-55 – China. Naval units evacuated US civilians and military personnel from the Tachen Islands.[RL30172]
1955-64 – Vietnam. First military advisors sent to Vietnam on 12 Feb 1955. By 1964, US troop levels had grown to 21,000. On 7 August 1964, US Congress approved Gulf of Tonkin resolution affirming "All necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States. . .to prevent further aggression. . . (and) assist any member or protocol state of the Southeast Asian Collective Defense Treaty (SEATO) requesting assistance. . ."[Vietnam timeline]
1956 – Egypt. A marine battalion evacuated US nationals and other persons from Alexandria during the Suez crisis.[RL30172]
1958 – Lebanon. Lebanon crisis of 1958 Marines were landed in Lebanon at the invitation of President Camille Chamoun to help protect against threatened insurrection supported from the outside. The President's action was supported by a Congressional resolution passed in 1957 that authorized such actions in that area of the world.[RL30172]
[edit]1960-1969
1959-60 – The Caribbean. Second Marine Ground Task Force was deployed to protect US nationals following the Cuban revolution.[RL30172]
1962 – Thailand. The Third Marine Expeditionary Unit landed on May 17, 1962 to support that country during the threat of Communist pressure from outside; by July 30, the 5,000 marines had been withdrawn.[RL30172]
1962 – Cuba. Cuban Missile Crisis On October 22, President Kennedy instituted a "quarantine" on the shipment of offensive missiles to Cuba from the Soviet Union. He also warned Soviet Union that the launching of any missile from Cuba against nations in the Western Hemisphere would bring about US nuclear retaliation on the Soviet Union. A negotiated settlement was achieved in a few days.[RL30172]
1962-75 – Laos. From October 1962 until 1975, the United States played an important role in military support of anti-Communist forces in Laos.[RL30172]
1964 – Congo (Zaire). The United States sent four transport planes to provide airlift for Congolese troops during a rebellion and to transport Belgian paratroopers to rescue foreigners.[RL30172]
1959-75 – Vietnam War. US military advisers had been in South Vietnam for a decade, and their numbers had been increased as the military position of the Saigon government became weaker. After citing what he termed were attacks on US destroyers in the Tonkin Gulf, President Johnson asked in August 1964 for a resolution expressing US determination to support freedom and protect peace in Southeast Asia. Congress responded with the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, expressing support for "all necessary measures" the President might take to repel armed attacks against US forces and prevent further aggression. Following this resolution, and following a Communist attack on a US installation in central Vietnam, the United States escalated its participation in the war to a peak of 543,000 military personnel by April 1969.[RL30172]
1965 – Dominican Republic. Invasion of Dominican Republic The United States intervened to protect lives and property during a Dominican revolt and sent 20,000 US troops as fears grew that the revolutionary forces were coming increasingly under Communist control.[RL30172]
1967 – Israel. The USS Liberty incident, whereupon a United States Navy Technical Research Ship was attacked June 8, 1967 by Israeli armed forces, killing 34 and wounding more than 170 U.S. crew members.
1967 – Congo (Zaire). The United States sent three military transport aircraft with crews to provide the Congo central government with logistical support during a revolt.[RL30172]
1968 – Laos & Cambodia. U.S. starts secret bombing campaign against targets along the Ho Chi Minh trail in the sovereign nations of Cambodia and Laos. The bombings last at least two years. (See Operation Commando Hunt)
[edit]1970-1979
1970 – Cambodia Campaign. US troops were ordered into Cambodia to clean out Communist sanctuaries from which Viet Cong and North Vietnamese attacked US and South Vietnamese forces in Vietnam. The object of this attack, which lasted from April 30 to June 30, was to ensure the continuing safe withdrawal of American forces from South Vietnam and to assist the program of Vietnamization.[RL30172]
1973 – Operation Nickel Grass, a strategic airlift operation conducted by the United States to deliver weapons and supplies to Israel during the Yom Kippur War.
1974 – Evacuation from Cyprus. United States naval forces evacuated US civilians during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.[RL30172]
1975 – Evacuation from Vietnam. On April 3, 1975, President Ford reported US naval vessels, helicopters, and Marines had been sent to assist in evacuation of refugees and US nationals from Vietnam.[RL30172]
1975 – Evacuation from Cambodia. On April 12, 1975, President Ford reported that he had ordered US military forces to proceed with the planned evacuation of US citizens from Cambodia.[RL30172]
1975 – South Vietnam. On April 30, 1975, President Ford reported that a force of 70 evacuation helicopters and 865 Marines had evacuated about 1,400 US citizens and 5,500 third country nationals and South Vietnamese from landing zones in and around the US Embassy, Saigon and Tan Son Nhut Airport.[RL30172]
1975 – Cambodia. Mayagüez Incident. On May 15, 1975, President Ford reported he had ordered military forces to retake the SS Mayagüez, a merchant vessel which was seized from Cambodian naval patrol boats in international waters and forced to proceed to a nearby island.[RL30172]
1976 – Lebanon. On July 22 and 23, 1976, helicopters from five US naval vessels evacuated approximately 250 Americans and Europeans from Lebanon during fighting between Lebanese factions after an overland convoy evacuation had been blocked by hostilities.[RL30172]
1976 – Korea. Additional forces were sent to Korea after two American soldiers were killed by North Korean soldiers in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea while cutting down a tree.[RL30172]
1978 – Zaire (Congo). From May 19 through June 1978, the United States utilized military transport aircraft to provide logistical support to Belgian and French rescue operations in Zaire.[RL30172]
[edit]1980-1990
1980 – Operation Eagle Claw, Iran. On April 26, 1980, President Carter reported the use of six U.S. transport planes and eight helicopters in an unsuccessful attempt to rescue the American hostages in Iran.
1981 – El Salvador. After a guerrilla offensive against the government of El Salvador, additional US military advisers were sent to El Salvador, bringing the total to approximately 55, to assist in training government forces in counterinsurgency.[RL30172]
1981 – Libya. First Gulf of Sidra Incident On August 19, 1981, US planes based on the carrier USS Nimitz shot down two Libyan jets over the Gulf of Sidra after one of the Libyan jets had fired a heat-seeking missile. The United States periodically held freedom of navigation exercises in the Gulf of Sidra, claimed by Libya as territorial waters but considered international waters by the United States.[RL30172]
1982 – Sinai. On March 19, 1982, President Reagan reported the deployment of military personnel and equipment to participate in the Multinational Force and Observers in the Sinai. Participation had been authorized by the Multinational Force and Observers Resolution, Public Law 97-132.[RL30172]
1982 – Lebanon. Multinational Force in Lebanon. On August 21, 1982, President Reagan reported the dispatch of 80 Marines to serve in the multinational force to assist in the withdrawal of members of the Palestine Liberation force from Beirut. The Marines left September 20, 1982.[RL30172]
1982-1983 – Lebanon. On September 29, 1982, President Reagan reported the deployment of 1200 marines to serve in a temporary multinational force to facilitate the restoration of Lebanese government sovereignty. On September 29, 1983, Congress passed the Multinational Force in Lebanon Resolution (P.L. 98-119) authorizing the continued participation for eighteen months.[RL30172]
1983 – Egypt. After a Libyan plane bombed a city in Sudan on March 18, 1983, and Sudan and Egypt appealed for assistance, the United States dispatched an AWACS electronic surveillance plane to Egypt.[RL30172]
1983 – Grenada. Citing the increased threat of Soviet and Cuban influence and noting the development of an international airport following a bloodless Grenada coup d'état and alignment with the Soviets and Cuba, the U.S. launches Operation Urgent Fury to invade the sovereign island nation of Grenada.[RL30172]
1983-89 – Honduras. In July 1983 the United States undertook a series of exercises in Honduras that some believed might lead to conflict with Nicaragua. On March 25, 1986, unarmed US military helicopters and crewmen ferried Honduran troops to the Nicaraguan border to repel Nicaraguan troops.[RL30172]
1983 – Chad. On August 8, 1983, President Reagan reported the deployment of two AWACS electronic surveillance planes and eight F-15 fighter planes and ground logistical support forces to assist Chad against Libyan and rebel forces.[RL30172]
1984 – Persian Gulf. On June 5, 1984, Saudi Arabian jet fighter planes, aided by intelligence from a US AWACS electronic surveillance aircraft and fueled by a U.S. KC-10 tanker, shot down two Iranian fighter planes over an area of the Persian Gulf proclaimed as a protected zone for shipping.[RL30172]
1985 – Italy. On October 10, 1985, US Navy pilots intercepted an Egyptian airliner and forced it to land in Sicily. The airliner was carrying the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro who had killed an American citizen during the hijacking.[RL30172]
1986 – Libya. Action in the Gulf of Sidra (1986) On March 26, 1986, President Reagan reported on March 24 and 25, US forces, while engaged in freedom of navigation exercises around the Gulf of Sidra, had been attacked by Libyan missiles and the United States had responded with missiles.[RL30172]
1986 – Libya. Operation El Dorado Canyon On April 16, 1986, President Reagan reported that U.S. air and naval forces had conducted bombing strikes on terrorist facilities and military installations in the Libyan capitol of Tripoli, claiming that Libyan leader Col. Muammar al-Gaddafi was responsible for a bomb attack at a German disco that killed two U.S. soldiers.[RL30172]
1986 – Bolivia. U.S. Army personnel and aircraft assisted Bolivia in anti-drug operations.[RL30172]
1987 – Persian Gulf. USS Stark was struck on May 17 by two Exocet antiship missiles fired from an Iraqi F-1 Mirage during the Iran-Iraq War killing 37 US Navy sailors.
1987 –October 19, Operation Nimble Archer - attack on two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf by United States Navy forces. The attack was a response to Iran's October 16, 1987 attack on the MV Sea Isle City, a reflagged Kuwaiti oil tanker at anchor off Kuwait, with a Silkworm missile.
1987-88 – Persian Gulf. After the Iran-Iraq War resulted in several military incidents in the Persian Gulf, the United States increased US joint military forces operations in the Persian Gulf and adopted a policy of reflagging and escorting Kuwaiti oil tankers through the Persian Gulf, called Operation Earnest Will. President Reagan reported that US ships had been fired upon or struck mines or taken other military action on September 21 (Iran Ajr), October 8, and October 19, 1987 and April 18 (Operation Praying Mantis), July 3, and July 14, 1988. The United States gradually reduced its forces after a cease-fire between Iran and Iraq on August 20, 1988.[RL30172] It was the largest naval convoy operation since World War II.[4]
1987-88 – Operation Earnest Will was the U.S. military protection of Kuwaiti oil tankers from Iraqi and Iranian attacks in 1987 and 1988 during the Tanker War phase of the Iran-Iraq War. It was the largest naval convoy operation since World War II.
1987-88 – Operation Prime Chance was a United States Special Operations Command operation intended to protect U.S. -flagged oil tankers from Iranian attack during the Iran-Iraq War. The operation took place roughly at the same time as Operation Earnest Will.
1988 – Operation Praying Mantis was the April 18, 1988 action waged by U.S. naval forces in retaliation for the Iranian mining of the Persian Gulf and the subsequent damage to an American warship.
1988 – Operation Golden Pheasant was an emergency deployment of U.S. troops to Honduras in 1988, as a result of threatening actions by the forces of the (then socialist) Nicaraguans.
1988 – USS Vincennes shoot down of Iran Air Flight 655
1988 – Panama. In mid-March and April 1988, during a period of instability in Panama and as the United States increased pressure on Panamanian head of state General Manuel Noriega to resign, the United States sent 1,000 troops to Panama, to "further safeguard the canal, US lives, property and interests in the area." The forces supplemented 10,000 US military personnel already in the Panama Canal Zone.[RL30172]
1989 – Libya. Second Gulf of Sidra Incident On January 4, 1989, two US Navy F-14 aircraft based on the USS John F. Kennedy shot down two Libyan jet fighters over the Mediterranean Sea about 70 miles north of Libya. The US pilots said the Libyan planes had demonstrated hostile intentions.[RL30172]
1989 – Panama. On May 11, 1989, in response to General Noriega's disregard of the results of the Panamanian election, President Bush ordered a brigade-sized force of approximately 1,900 troops to augment the estimated 11,000 U.S. forces already in the area.[RL30172]
1989 – Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru. Andean Initiative in War on Drugs. On September 15, 1989, President Bush announced that military and law enforcement assistance would be sent to help the Andean nations of Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru combat illicit drug producers and traffickers. By mid-September there were 50-100 US military advisers in Colombia in connection with transport and training in the use of military equipment, plus seven Special Forces teams of 2-12 persons to train troops in the three countries.[RL30172]
1989 – Operation Classic Resolve, Philippines - On December 2, 1989, President Bush reported that on December 1, Air Force fighters from Clark Air Base in Luzon had assisted the Aquino government to repel a coup attempt. In addition, 100 marines were sent from U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay to protect the United States Embassy in Manila.[RL30172]
1989-90 – Operation Just Cause, Panama - On December 21, 1989, President Bush reported that he had ordered US military forces to Panama to protect the lives of American citizens and bring General Noriega to justice. By February 13, 1990, all the invasion forces had been withdrawn.[RL30172] Around 200 Panamanian civilians were reported killed. The Panamanian head of state, General Manuel Noriega, was captured and brought to the U.S.
1990 – Liberia. On August 6, 1990, President Bush reported that a reinforced rifle company had been sent to provide additional security to the US Embassy in Monrovia, and that helicopter teams had evacuated U.S. citizens from Liberia.[RL30172]
1990 – Saudi Arabia. On August 9, 1990, President Bush reported that he had ordered the forward deployment of substantial elements of the US armed forces into the Persian Gulf region to help defend Saudi Arabia after the August 2 invasion of Kuwait by Iraq. On November 16, 1990, he reported the continued buildup of the forces to ensure an adequate offensive military option.[RL30172] American hostages being held in Iran.[RL30172]
[edit]1991-1999
1991 – Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm (Persian Gulf War). On January 16, 1991, U.S. forces attacked Iraqi forces and military targets in Iraq and Kuwait in conjunction with a coalition of allies and under United Nations Security Council resolutions. Combat operations ended on February 28, 1991.[RL30172]
1991 – Iraq. On May 17, 1991, President Bush stated that the Iraqi repression of the Kurdish people had necessitated a limited introduction of U.S. forces into northern Iraq for emergency relief purposes.[RL30172]
1991 – Zaire. On September 25–27, 1991, after widespread looting and rioting broke out in Kinshasa, Air Force C-141s transported 100 Belgian troops and equipment into Kinshasa. American planes also carried 300 French troops into the Central African Republic and hauled evacuated American citizens.[RL30172]
1991-96 – Operation Provide Comfort. Delivery of humanitarian relief and military protection for Kurds fleeing their homes in northern Iraq, by a small Allied ground force based in Turkey.
1992 – Operation Silver Anvil, Sierra Leone. Following the April 29 coup that overthrew President Joseph Saidu Momoh, a United States European Command (USEUCOM) Joint Special Operations Task Force evacuated 438 people (including 42 third-country nationals) on May 3 .Two Air Mobility Command (AMC) C-141s flew 136 people from Freetown, Sierra Leone, to the Rhein-Main Air Base in Germany and nine C-130 sorties carried another 302 people to Dakar, Senegal.[RL30172]
1992-1996 – Operation Provide Promise was a humanitarian relief operation in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Yugoslav Wars, from July 2, 1992, to January 9, 1996, which made it the longest running humanitarian airlift in history.[5]
1992 – Kuwait. On August 3, 1992, the United States began a series of military exercises in Kuwait, following Iraqi refusal to recognize a new border drawn up by the United Nations and refusal to cooperate with UN inspection teams.[RL30172]
1992-2003 – Iraq. Iraqi No-Fly Zones The U.S. together with the United Kingdom declares and enforces "no fly zones" over the majority of sovereign Iraqi airspace, prohibiting Iraqi flights in zones in southern Iraq and northern Iraq, and conducting aerial reconnaissance and bombings. (See also Operation Southern Watch) [RL30172]
1992-95 – Somalia. "Operation Restore Hope" Somali Civil War On December 10, 1992, President Bush reported that he had deployed US armed forces to Somalia in response to a humanitarian crisis and a UN Security Council Resolution. The operation came to an end on May 4, 1993. US forces continued to participate in the successor United Nations Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM II). (See also Battle of Mogadishu)[RL30172]
1993–Present – Bosnia-Herzegovina.
1993 – Macedonia. On July 9, 1993, President Clinton reported the deployment of 350 US soldiers to the Republic of Macedonia to participate in the UN Protection Force to help maintain stability in the area of former Yugoslavia.[RL30172]
1994-95 – Operation Uphold Democracy, Haiti. U.S. ships had begun embargo against Haiti. Up to 20,000 US military troops were later deployed to Haiti.[RL30172]
1994 – Macedonia. On April 19, 1994, President Clinton reported that the US contingent in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia had been increased by a reinforced company of 200 personnel.[RL30172]
1995 – Operation Deliberate Force, Bosnia. NATO bombing of Bosnian Serbs.[RL30172]
1996 – Operation Assured Response, Liberia. On April 11, 1996, President Clinton reported that on April 9, 1996 due to the "deterioration of the security situation and the resulting threat to American citizens" in Liberia he had ordered U.S. military forces to evacuate from that country "private U.S. citizens and certain third-country nationals who had taken refuge in the U.S. Embassy compound, "[RL30172]
1996 – Operation Quick Response, Central African Republic. On May 23, 1996, President Clinton reported the deployment of US military personnel to Bangui, Central African Republic, to conduct the evacuation from that country of "private U.S. citizens and certain U.S. government employees," and to provide "enhanced security for the American Embassy in Bangui."[RL30172] United States Marine Corps elements of Joint Task Force Assured Response , responding in nearby Liberia, provided security to the embassy and evacuated 448 people, including between 190 and 208 Americans. The last Marines left Bangui on June 22.
1997 – Operation Silver Wake, Albania On March 13, 1997, U.S. military forces were used to evacuate certain U.S. government employees and private U.S. citizens from Tirana, Albania.[RL30172]
1997 – Congo and Gabon. On March 27, 1997, President Clinton reported on March 25, 1997, a standby evacuation force of U.S. military personnel had been deployed to Congo and Gabon to provide enhanced security and to be available for any necessary evacuation operation.[RL30172]
1997 – Sierra Leone. On May 29 and May 30, 1997, U.S. military personnel were deployed to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to prepare for and undertake the evacuation of certain U.S. government employees and private U.S. citizens.[RL30172]
1997 – Cambodia. On July 11, 1997, In an effort to ensure the security of American citizens in Cambodia during a period of domestic conflict there, a Task Force of about 550 U.S. military personnel were deployed at Utapao Air Base in Thailand for possible evacuat

KunleOshob:

@pastorAIO
Which country did America invade before becoming the dominant super power in the world today?

Sorry, you didn't ask about it's wars, you asked about which countries it invaded. Well for a start the entire US of A was acquired by invasion. Then there is the mexican wars, and then the Korean wars, . . Vietnam . . . Panama . . . these are just off the top of my head. In the more comprehensive list above there are the countries that the US actually invaded.

Am I allowed to include those countries that US manipulated into wars and coup d'etats without actually invading themselves?

COUNTRY OR STATE Dates of intervention Forces Comments
SOUTH DAKOTA 1890 (-?) Troops 300 Lakota Indians massacred at Wounded Knee.
ARGENTINA 1890 Troops Buenos Aires interests protected.
CHILE 1891 Troops Marines clash with nationalist rebels.
HAITI 1891 Troops Black revolt on Navassa defeated.
IDAHO 1892 Troops Army suppresses silver miners' strike.
HAWAII 1893 (-?) Naval, troops Independent kingdom overthrown, annexed.
CHICAGO 1894 Troops Breaking of rail strike, 34 killed.
NICARAGUA 1894 Troops Month-long occupation of Bluefields.
CHINA 1894-95 Naval, troops Marines land in Sino-Japanese War
KOREA 1894-96 Troops Marines kept in Seoul during war.
PANAMA 1895 Troops, naval Marines land in Colombian province.
NICARAGUA 1896 Troops Marines land in port of Corinto.
CHINA 1898-1900 Troops Boxer Rebellion fought by foreign armies.
PHILIPPINES 1898-1910 (-?) Naval, troops Seized from Spain, killed 600,000 Filipinos
CUBA 1898-1902 (-?) Naval, troops Seized from Spain, still hold Navy base.
PUERTO RICO 1898 (-?) Naval, troops Seized from Spain, occupation continues.
GUAM 1898 (-?) Naval, troops Seized from Spain, still use as base.
MINNESOTA 1898 (-?) Troops Army battles Chippewa at Leech Lake.
NICARAGUA 1898 Troops Marines land at port of San Juan del Sur.
SAMOA 1899 (-?) Troops Battle over succession to throne.
NICARAGUA 1899 Troops Marines land at port of Bluefields.
IDAHO 1899-1901 Troops Army occupies Coeur d'Alene mining region.
OKLAHOMA 1901 Troops Army battles Creek Indian revolt.
PANAMA 1901-14 Naval, troops Broke off from Colombia 1903, annexed Canal Zone 1914.
HONDURAS 1903 Troops Marines intervene in revolution.
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 1903-04 Troops U.S. interests protected in Revolution.
KOREA 1904-05 Troops Marines land in Russo-Japanese War.
CUBA 1906-09 Troops Marines land in democratic election.
NICARAGUA 1907 Troops "Dollar Diplomacy" protectorate set up.
HONDURAS 1907 Troops Marines land during war with Nicaragua
PANAMA 1908 Troops Marines intervene in election contest.
NICARAGUA 1910 Troops Marines land in Bluefields and Corinto.
HONDURAS 1911 Troops U.S. interests protected in civil war.
CHINA 1911-41 Naval, troops Continuous occupation with flare-ups.
CUBA 1912 Troops U.S. interests protected in civil war.
PANAMA 1912 Troops Marines land during heated election.
HONDURAS 1912 Troops Marines protect U.S. economic interests.
NICARAGUA 1912-33 Troops, bombing 10-year occupation, fought guerillas
MEXICO 1913 Naval Americans evacuated during revolution.
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 1914 Naval Fight with rebels over Santo Domingo.
COLORADO 1914 Troops Breaking of miners' strike by Army.
MEXICO 1914-18 Naval, troops Series of interventions against nationalists.
HAITI 1914-34 Troops, bombing 19-year occupation after revolts.
TEXAS 1915 Troops Federal soldiers crush "Plan of San Diego" Mexican-American rebellion
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 1916-24 Troops 8-year Marine occupation.
CUBA 1917-33 Troops Military occupation, economic protectorate.
WORLD WAR I 1917-18 Naval, troops Ships sunk, fought Germany for 1 1/2 years.
RUSSIA 1918-22 Naval, troops Five landings to fight Bolsheviks
PANAMA 1918-20 Troops "Police duty" during unrest after elections.
HONDURAS 1919 Troops Marines land during election campaign.
YUGOSLAVIA 1919 Troops/Marines intervene for Italy against Serbs in Dalmatia.
GUATEMALA 1920 Troops 2-week intervention against unionists.
WEST VIRGINIA 1920-21 Troops, bombing Army intervenes against mineworkers.
TURKEY 1922 Troops Fought nationalists in Smyrna.
CHINA 1922-27 Naval, troops Deployment during nationalist revolt.
HONDURAS 1924-25 Troops Landed twice during election strife.
PANAMA 1925 Troops Marines suppress general strike.
CHINA 1927-34 Troops Marines stationed throughout the country.
EL SALVADOR 1932 Naval Warships send during Marti revolt.
WASHINGTON DC 1932 Troops Army stops WWI vet bonus protest.
WORLD WAR II 1941-45 Naval, troops, bombing, nuclear Hawaii bombed, fought Japan, Italy and Germay for 3 years; first nuclear war.
DETROIT 1943 Troops Army put down Black rebellion.
IRAN 1946 Nuclear threat Soviet troops told to leave north.
YUGOSLAVIA 1946 Nuclear threat, naval Response to shoot-down of US plane.
URUGUAY 1947 Nuclear threat Bombers deployed as show of strength.
GREECE 1947-49 Command operation U.S. directs extreme-right in civil war.
GERMANY 1948 Nuclear Threat Atomic-capable bombers guard Berlin Airlift.
CHINA 1948-49 Troops/Marines evacuate Americans before Communist victory.
PHILIPPINES 1948-54 Command operation CIA directs war against Huk Rebellion.
PUERTO RICO 1950 Command operation Independence rebellion crushed in Ponce.
KOREA 1951-53 (-?) Troops, naval, bombing , nuclear threats U.S./So. Korea fights China/No. Korea to stalemate; A-bomb threat in 1950, and against China in 1953. Still have bases.
IRAN 1953 Command Operation CIA overthrows democracy, installs Shah.
VIETNAM 1954 Nuclear threat French offered bombs to use against seige.
GUATEMALA 1954 Command operation, bombing, nuclear threat CIA directs exile invasion after new gov't nationalized U.S. company lands; bombers based in Nicaragua.
EGYPT 1956 Nuclear threat, troops Soviets told to keep out of Suez crisis; Marines evacuate foreigners.
LEBANON l958 Troops, naval Marine occupation against rebels.
IRAQ 1958 Nuclear threat Iraq warned against invading Kuwait.
CHINA l958 Nuclear threat China told not to move on Taiwan isles.
PANAMA 1958 Troops Flag protests erupt into confrontation.
VIETNAM l960-75 Troops, naval, bombing, nuclear threats Fought South Vietnam revolt & North Vietnam; one million killed in longest U.S. war; atomic bomb threats in l968 and l969.
CUBA l961 Command operation CIA-directed exile invasion fails.
GERMANY l961 Nuclear threat Alert during Berlin Wall crisis.
LAOS 1962 Command operation Military buildup during guerrilla war.
CUBA l962 Nuclear threat, naval Blockade during missile crisis; near-war with Soviet Union.
IRAQ 1963 Command operation CIA organizes coup that killed president, brings Ba'ath Party to power, and Saddam Hussein back from exile to be head of the secret service.
PANAMA l964 Troops Panamanians shot for urging canal's return.
INDONESIA l965 Command operation Million killed in CIA-assisted army coup.
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 1965-66 Troops, bombing Marines land during election campaign.
GUATEMALA l966-67 Command operation Green Berets intervene against rebels.
DETROIT l967 Troops Army battles African Americans, 43 killed.
UNITED STATES l968 Troops After King is shot; over 21,000 soldiers in cities.
CAMBODIA l969-75 Bombing, troops, naval Up to 2 million killed in decade of bombing, starvation, and political chaos.
OMAN l970 Command operation U.S. directs Iranian marine invasion.
LAOS l971-73 Command operation, bombing U.S. directs South Vietnamese invasion; "carpet-bombs" countryside.
SOUTH DAKOTA l973 Command operation Army directs Wounded Knee siege of Lakotas.
MIDEAST 1973 Nuclear threat World-wide alert during Mideast War.
CHILE 1973 Command operation CIA-backed coup ousts elected marxist president.
CAMBODIA l975 Troops, bombing Gas captured ship, 28 die in copter crash.
ANGOLA l976-92 Command operation CIA assists South African-backed rebels.
IRAN l980 Troops, nuclear threat, aborted bombing Raid to rescue Embassy hostages; 8 troops die in copter-plane crash. Soviets warned not to get involved in revolution.
LIBYA l981 Naval jets Two Libyan jets shot down in maneuvers.
EL SALVADOR l981-92 Command operation, troops Advisors, overflights aid anti-rebel war, soldiers briefly involved in hostage clash.
NICARAGUA l981-90 Command operation, naval CIA directs exile (Contra) invasions, plants harbor mines against revolution.
LEBANON l982-84 Naval, bombing, troops Marines expel PLO and back Phalangists, Navy bombs and shells Muslim positions.
GRENADA l983-84 Troops, bombing Invasion four years after revolution.
HONDURAS l983-89 Troops Maneuvers help build bases near borders.
IRAN l984 Jets Two Iranian jets shot down over Persian Gulf.
LIBYA l986 Bombing, naval Air strikes to topple nationalist gov't.
BOLIVIA 1986 Troops Army assists raids on cocaine region.
IRAN l987-88 Naval, bombing US intervenes on side of Iraq in war.
LIBYA 1989 Naval jets Two Libyan jets shot down.
VIRGIN ISLANDS 1989 Troops St. Croix Black unrest after storm.
PHILIPPINES 1989 Jets Air cover provided for government against coup.
PANAMA 1989 (-?) Troops, bombing Nationalist government ousted by 27,000 soldiers, leaders arrested, 2000+ killed.
LIBERIA 1990 Troops Foreigners evacuated during civil war.
SAUDI ARABIA 1990-91 Troops, jets Iraq countered after invading Kuwait. 540,000 troops also stationed in Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Israel.
IRAQ 1990-91 Bombing, troops, naval Blockade of Iraqi and Jordanian ports, air strikes; 200,000+ killed in invasion of Iraq and Kuwait; large-scale destruction of Iraqi military.
KUWAIT 1991 Naval, bombing, troops Kuwait royal family returned to throne.
IRAQ 1991-2003 Bombing, naval No-fly zone over Kurdish north, Shiite south; constant air strikes and naval-enforced economic sanctions
LOS ANGELES 1992 Troops Army, Marines deployed against anti-police uprising.
SOMALIA 1992-94 Troops, naval, bombing U.S.-led United Nations occupation during civil war; raids against one Mogadishu faction.
YUGOSLAVIA 1992-94 Naval NATO blockade of Serbia and Montenegro.
BOSNIA 1993-? Jets, bombing No-fly zone patrolled in civil war; downed jets, bombed Serbs.
HAITI 1994 Troops, naval Blockade against military government; troops restore President Aristide to office three years after coup.
ZAIRE (CONGO) 1996-97 Troops Marines at Rwandan Hutu refugee camps, in area where Congo revolution begins.
LIBERIA 1997 Troops Soldiers under fire during evacuation of foreigners.
ALBANIA 1997 Troops Soldiers under fire during evacuation of foreigners.
SUDAN 1998 Missiles Attack on pharmaceutical plant alleged to be "terrorist" nerve gas plant.
AFGHANISTAN 1998 Missiles Attack on former CIA training camps used by Islamic fundamentalist groups alleged to have attacked embassies.
IRAQ 1998 Bombing, Missiles Four days of intensive air strikes after weapons inspectors allege Iraqi obstructions.
YUGOSLAVIA 1999 Bombing, Missiles Heavy NATO air strikes after Serbia declines to withdraw from Kosovo. NATO occupation of Kosovo.
YEMEN 2000 Naval USS Cole, docked in Aden, bombed.
MACEDONIA 2001 Troops NATO forces deployed to move and disarm Albanian rebels.
UNITED STATES 2001 Jets, naval Reaction to hijacker attacks on New York, DC
AFGHANISTAN 2001-? Troops, bombing, missiles Massive U.S. mobilization to overthrow Taliban, hunt Al Qaeda fighters, install Karzai regime, and battle Taliban insurgency. More than 30,000 U.S. troops and numerous private security contractors carry our occupation.
YEMEN 2002 Missiles Predator drone missile attack on Al Qaeda, including a US citizen.
PHILIPPINES 2002-? Troops, naval Training mission for Philippine military fighting Abu Sayyaf rebels evolves into combat missions in Sulu Archipelago, west of Mindanao.
COLOMBIA 2003-? Troops US special forces sent to rebel zone to back up Colombian military protecting oil pipeline.
IRAQ 2003-? Troops, naval, bombing, missiles Saddam regime toppled in Baghdad. More than 250,000 U.S. personnel participate in invasion. US and UK forces occupy country and battle Sunni and Shi'ite insurgencies. More than 160,000 troops and numerous private contractors carry out occupation and build large permanent bases.
LIBERIA 2003 Troops Brief involvement in peacekeeping force as rebels drove out leader.
HAITI 2004-05 Troops, naval Marines land after right-wing rebels oust elected President Aristide, who was advised to leave by Washington.
PAKISTAN 2005-? Missiles, bombing, covert operation CIA missile and air strikes and Special Forces raids on alleged Al Qaeda and Taliban refuge villages kill multiple civilians. Drone attacks also on Pakistani Mehsud network.
SOMALIA 2006-? Missiles, naval, covert operation Special Forces advise Ethiopian invasion that topples Islamist government; AC-130 strikes and Cruise missile attacks against Islamist rebels; naval blockade against "pirates" and insurgents.
SYRIA 2008 Troops Special Forces in helicopter raid 5 miles from Iraq kill 8 Syrian civilians
YEMEN 2009-? Missiles, command operation Cruise missile attack on Al Qaeda kills 49 civilians; Yemeni military assaults on rebels

@pastorAIO
Your "publishing" of American military activities in the last two centuries does not amount to an American invasion. China is also a super power today, which country did they invade?

AIO, don't know why you had to dig into american war history? The cherokees,apache,and other native american tribes were not occupied for the purpose of forceful convertion into christianity, unlike  muslim jihadist. Talk about jerusalem,isleal had to fight and defeat all his muslim neihgbours within four days before he took his territory and re-establish itself a soverign state in the 60's. If not because of the covenant God had with isreal,they would have been long forgotten on the surface of the earth. We still have some arabs like the palestinians claiming part of jerusalem today,and country like iran supporting their terrorist controlled government(al mas),just like we have it in lebanon(hezbollah),and we had it in afganistan(taliban).

The invasion of afganistan and iraq by america, was as a response to the cruelty of some government surpported islamist terror groups,financed and equiped by countries like iran. And if saddam and terrorist organisation like al queda are not posing a threat to the freedom and existence of america and the world,the two wars would have been uneccessary. And i don't see american soldiers or missionaries converting afgans or iraqis into christianity.

In nigeria,a muslim will practice his religion in the christian dominated south without the fear of being attacked or victimed. Whereas in the muslim dominated north,christians are most of the time attacked and killed for ridiculous reasons like touching of the quran. You just have to be careful showing your religion identity,because of fear.

^^^^

incourigible Drunk

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-559382.0.html

Please, this whole debate is getting out of hand. There is no more any structure or coherence to what you guys are saying. Plus, I think due to the vehement disregard for Islam, you are allowing your emotions to cloud your reasoning.

First, I was asked by Kunle what countries America invaded before becoming a superpower. So the following by daylae is irrelevant.

daylae:

AIO, don't know why you had to dig into american war history? The cherokees,apache,and other native american tribes were not occupied for the purpose of forceful convertion into christianity, unlike  muslim jihadist.

I was not addressing invasion for the purpose of forceful conversion. I was discussing invasion for the purpose of empire building. Do you see the difference? While the matter of forceful conversion is interesting in its own right, it is simply not the matter that is been discussed in that post. Please stick with the program.

Now Kunle, you will have to explain to me why an invasion is not a military activity.

KunleOshob:

@pastorAIO
Your "publishing" of American military activities in the last two centuries does not amount to an American invasion. China is also a super power today, which country did they invade?

Please look at the list (the 2nd list) that I provided and tell me which one of them is not an invasion. The name of the country invaded is the very first thing stated on each item on the list.

And as regards China, once again I refer you to history. You realise that China has been a superpower for the last 2 millenia and only suffered setbacks about a century and a half ago when the british invaded and then the Japanese. It's status as world superpower is returning to it as is inevitable. How was the Chinese Empire formed?

To ensure that there is no misunderstanding I will quote from a website called History For Kids. Please, I'm not suggesting that you are a kid but in case others have difficulty taking in the information that is the simplest form I can find.

The Ch'in Dynasty is the one which gave its name to China. The first Ch'in emperor, in 221 BC, was Ch'in Shih Huang Ti. He started out as the king of a smaller state, but he was able to force all the other states to accept his rule too, so then he became the emperor of all China. To show that he was the emperor, and more important than the other kings, he built big palaces and had very elaborate court ceremonies in his capital city of Xianyang. And, to show that China was all one empire now, Ch'in made everyone use the same letters to write with and use the same kinds of weights to measure things with, all over the empire.


Ch'in didn't trust the other kings whom he had conquered, so he didn't let them run anything. Instead, he chose his own assistants and sent them out as governors and judges for each part of his empire. And, so that he could keep an eye on the kings and their families, he made them leave their homes and come live in the capital city with him, and help him there. That way they couldn't revolt against him.

Great Wall of China[b]
Ch'in also got together a huge army to keep the kings from revolting against him. And when he didn't need it for revolts, he kept the army busy defending the empire and making it bigger and bigger. [/b]Soon China reached from Mongolia in the north to Vietnam in the south. The biggest danger to China was the people who lived in Mongolia and Siberia, who often tried to invade China. A lot of the kings in northern China had already built walls along their kingdoms to keep out these invaders. Ch'in ordered his army to join up all these little walls to make the Great Wall of China. The wall ended up being 1,500 miles long (2400 kilometers)!

That was over 2 thousand years ago, and the Chinese empire has remained intact since then.

Please let me repeat my position. There is no empire/superpower and there never has been in the entire history of this planet that come into existence without military invasion of other nations or states. Please if you know of any then list them out for me. I'll stand corrected when I see it.

Pastor AIO:

Sorry, you didn't ask about it's wars, you asked about which countries it invaded. Well for a start the entire US of A was acquired by invasion. Then there is the mexican wars, and then the Korean wars, . . Vietnam . . . Panama . . . these are just off the top of my head. In the more comprehensive list above there are the countries that the US actually invaded.

Am I allowed to include those countries that US manipulated into wars and coup d'etats without actually invading themselves?

Reading this post above it just dawned on my that Pearl Harbour and 9/11 are the only 2 attacks on USA that have actually occurred within the USA. All it's other conflicts have occurred abroad. In other words US was the invading force.

Now to you, Mr Daylae

daylae:

AIO, don't know why you had to dig into american war history? The cherokees,apache,and other native american tribes were not occupied for the purpose of forceful convertion into christianity, unlike  muslim jihadist. Talk about jerusalem,isleal had to fight and defeat all his muslim neihgbours within four days before he took his territory and re-establish itself a soverign state in the 60's. If not because of the covenant God had with isreal,they would have been long forgotten on the surface of the earth. We still have some arabs like the palestinians claiming part of jerusalem today,and country like iran supporting their terrorist controlled government(al mas),just like we have it in lebanon(hezbollah),and we had it in afganistan(taliban).

The invasion of afganistan and iraq by america, was as a response to the cruelty of some government surpported islamist terror groups,financed and equiped by countries like iran. And if saddam and terrorist organisation like al queda are not posing a threat to the freedom and existence of america and the world,the two wars would have been uneccessary. And i don't see american soldiers or missionaries converting afgans or iraqis into christianity.

In nigeria,a muslim will practice his religion in the christian dominated south without the fear of being attacked or victimed. Whereas in the muslim dominated north,christians are most of the time attacked and killed for ridiculous reasons like touching of the quran. You just have to be careful showing your religion identity,because of fear.  

You realise that when Israel was created in the 40s, that there were people living there for centuries before that. Those people were shoved off their land.

Now, I suspect that your knowledge of history is shoddy, but if you oblige me I would like to ask you some questions about the Roman invasions of Israel in the first century. I want you to consider what I am saying here very seriously because it will reveal a lot to you about how history gets manipulated.

In the first century AD there was a Jewish revolt against Roman rule. The jews were massacred and they held their last resistance in AD74 in a city called Masada. When they realised that the city was about to fall they committed suicide. The Roman soldiers left. In the 2nd century there was another revolt by Simon bar Kochba. The Romans defeated him and then declared Jerusalem out of bounds for Jews. The rest of palestine was still populated by Jews.


My question to you is this. Was there any dispersal of the Jews after the revolt? For example, it is a known fact that the Babylonians took the Jewish upper classes on exile to babylon. And so did the Assyrians. But did the Romans ever do such a thing? Or after defeating the Jews did they not leave them there to lick their wounds.

Let me word it differently. Did the Romans ever take the Jews into Exile?
If you think they did can you please show us some record of this event. I'm sure that you can see already the direction in which my questioning is heading so you might be reluctant to answer.

And as regards what you have to say about America invading Iraq to prevent terrorism, in this day and age. We are in 2010 now now! Which one my brother. Till today we haven't found any weapons of mass destruction yet. (you see how gracious I am, I put yet, so maybe they may still find some in the future).
I can tell you what they found though. They found lots and lots of oil.
Dude, just based on what you said about america invading iraq you deserve to be ignored, but I have time for you today.

This should help you for the question.

In the Spring of 66 AD, the Jews of Roman Judea had had enough of Roman intolerance and rose up in rebellion against the excesses of the procurator Gessius Florus. Without any apparently plan or organized leadership, Rebels seized control of Jerusalem (Hierosolyma) section by section, and then finally massacred the sole cohort of Roman infantry left behind by Florus as a garrison. A relief army of 30,000 under Cestius Gallus, the Roman Governor of Syria, quickly quashed resistance in northern Judea and then marched on Jerusalem, assaulting the walls for eight days and seriously demoralizing the defenders before withdrawing (presumably because his army was proving unreliable and he lacked a seige train to conduct seige operations). Gallus retired to Beth-Horon, where the rejuvenated rebels attacked him, inflicting a heavy defeat. Realizing that the die was irreparably cast for war, the Jewish aristocrat and priest classes quickly organized the country, dividing it into eleven administrative districts, each with its own commander and small army. Unfortunately for their cause, the divided Jewish forces were unable to coordinate their operations or come to each for mutual support.

The Emperor Nero responded to news of Gallus' defeat by dispatching Vespasian to command the three legions and auxiliaries (nearly 60,000 men) already enroute to suppress the rebellion. The Romans successfully beseiged Jotapata and then marched to the port of Caesarea, where they met Vespasian, who lead them across country to Tiberias and Gamala. This campaign successfully secured the Galilee by the close of 67 AD. Roman successes prompted internal dissension among the Jewish leaders, leading the fanatical Zealots under John and their allies, the Idumaean Jews of southern Judea, to overthrow the aristocrats and seize control of Jerusalem. Later, Simon and his bandits entered the city and contested the Zealots' control, making life doubly difficult for the aristocrats and priests.

Vespasian then moved southward in a multi-pronged campaign that resulted in the recapture of Gadara, Jericho and Emmaus, thus successfully isolating the Jewish rebels at Jerusalem by the close of 68 AD. Before he could complete the campaign, however, Nero was overthrown and Vespasian was proclaimed emperor by his eastern legions in July 69 AD. Shortly thereafter, he departed for Rome, leaving his son Titus in command of operations.

Titus then moved on Jerusalem, which fell in September 70 AD, after a seven month seige. The Herodian temple and much of the city was razed, captives were shipped off to the gladiatorial games or Roman mines, and John and Simon were captured and sent to Rome to participate in Vespasian's Triumph, after which Simon was executed. The fall of Jerusalem marked the effective end of the Jewish Revolt (and this period in the DBA army list), however mop-up operations continued for the next four years under the generals Lucilius Bassus and Flavius Silva against fanatical bands of rebels who holed up in fortresses at Herodium, Machaerus and Masada in the south of Judea. Masada was the last to fall (Spring 74 AD). After the Romans had completed extensive preparations for an assault against the rocky citadel, Masada's defenders committed mass suicide rather than risk falling into Roman hands.

The second Jewish Revolt (132-135 AD) was prompted by the Emperor Hadrian, who during his travels through Judea in 130 AD indulged himself in several provocations, including a decree banning circumcism, construction of a tomb to Pompey (who had desecrated the Temple of Yahweh in Jersusalem in 63 BC) and the pronouncement that he would rebuild Jerusalem as the Roman city Aeolia Capitolina, including construction of a temple to Jupiter Capitolinus on the site of Herod's temple. Apparently designed to provoke a reaction, Hadrian's actions certainly did not sit well with the natives, who promptly revolted under the leadership of Simon Bar Kokhba.

Little is recorded of the rebellion, despite the fact that it was fiercely fought and lasted approximately three and a half years before the Roman army under Julius Serverus was able to bring Bar Kokhba to bay in a fortress near Jerusalem. Jewish annals record that 50 forts and 985 villages were destroyed and that 580,000 Jews were killed during the course of the war. The Romans for their part were reputed to have lost the legio XXII Deiotariana. In the rebellion's aftermath, Hadrian permanently banned Jews from setting foot in Jerusalem and then rebuilt the city as a Roman colony.

http://www.fanaticus.org/DBA/armies/dba66.html

AIO:stop this marathon! I think you should pause,gasp for some air,and take a quick look at the context of the original post;then  you'll get that this thread wasn't started to talk about historical conquest and expansion of empires or kingdoms for economic or political supremacy and advantage. The human race will always seek to dominate for these reasons,either by tricks or by military confrontations. All these invasions you posted are still saying the same thing. In the case of the apaches,cherokees,roman invasion of egypt,british invation of nigeria,japan invasion of china,and the germans quest to rule the world,and so on; all these are either for economic, political ,or military expansion and dominance;but not to enforce faith by force. No doubt,everybody wants to be the world's superpower.

But in the case of muslim domination and conquest,people were forced to recieve islam and islamic laws. Jihadist fought to enforce islam and islamic laws. To them,the primary aim is to propagate islam and islamic laws,and econimic and political gains are secondary.

In all the muslim countries i mentioned,who operate strictly on islamic laws,and the fact that muslims don't believe faith should be by free-will,being in the position to decide global direction,they will surely do everything to propagate islam by force.

We know how the northern caliphate have been trying so hard to position nigeria as a muslim country,and we know how sharia laws have been fused into the laws of some states,disregarding the fact that not everyone in the state are muslims. Should they have the chance,they'll turn nigeria into an islamic repupbic. And that's the reason for so much aggression in the north(our suppossed mecca).

daylae:

AIO:stop this marathon! I think you should pause,gasp for some air,and take a quick look at the context of the original post;

Marathon ke!! I merely took a jog around the block. So you're panting and huffing and puffing already.

daylae:
then  you'll get that this thread wasn't started to talk about historical conquest and expansion of empires or kingdoms for economic or political supremacy and advantage.

No it wasn't, I agree. It was started so that you could express your vehement and condescending disregard for islam which is totally based on misinformation and bias. Nothing you've said has been backed by any historical cases.

daylae:
The human race will always seek to dominate for these reasons,either by tricks or by military confrontations. All these invasions you posted are still saying the same thing. In the case of the apaches,cherokees,roman invasion of egypt,british invation of nigeria,japan invasion of china,and the germans quest to rule the world,and so on; all these are either for economic, political ,or military expansion and dominance;but not to enforce faith by force. No doubt,everybody wants to be the world's superpower.

Thank you.

But in the case of muslim domination and conquest,people were forced to recieve islam and islamic laws. Jihadist fought to enforce islam and islamic laws. To them,the primary aim is to propagate islam and islamic laws,and econimic and political gains are secondary.

Now, this part is either a brazen lie, or rather you are misinformed. The expansion of the arabic empire was a grab for land and resources not a quest to spread islam. In the lands they conquered they signed pacts with the Ahl al-kitab. That is arabic for 'the people of the book'.

I quote:

People of the Book (Arabic: أهل الكتاب‎ ′Ahl al-Kitāb) is a term used to designate non-Muslim adherents to faiths which have a book of prayer.[1] The three faiths that are mentioned in the Qur'an as people of the book are Judaism, Sabians and Christianity. However, many Muslim rulers and scholars have also included other religions such as Zoroastrianism[2][3] and Hinduism.[4][5]

and more:

There are many statements in the Qur'an that promote tolerance towards People of The Book. For example:
And do not dispute with the followers of the Book except by what is best, except those of them who act unjustly, and say: We believe in that which has been revealed to us and revealed to you, and our God and your God is One, and to Him do we submit. [Qur'an 29:46

These people were called Dhimmi which in arabic means protected person. As long as they paid their poll tax they were protected under islamic law.

Historically, a dhimmi was a person who is protected under Islamic law by a pact contracted between non-Muslims and authorities from their Muslim government: this status was originally only made available to non-Muslims who were People of the Book (i.e. Jews and Christians), but was later extended to include Sikhs, Zoroastrians, Mandeans, Hindus[12] and Buddhists.[13][14] People of the Book living in non-Islamic nations were not considered dhimmis.
Non-Muslim People of the Book living in an Islamic nation under Sharia law were given a number of rights, such as the right to freely practice their faith in private and to receive state protection. They also had various legal impairments and responsibilities, such as the payment of a special tax called jizyah ("tribute" (although they were exempted from the Muslims' obligation to pay the Zakat tax). The social structure of the Ottoman Empire would serve as an example of how non-Muslims were treated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_of_the_Book

Early islamic rulers were reluctant to convert the people that they conquered because that would mean that they could no longer collect the jizyah which was like a poll tax that non-muslims had to pay.


Verily! Those who believe and those who are Jews and Christians, and Sabians, whoever believes in God and the Last Day and do righteous good deeds shall have their reward with their Lord, on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve . [Qur'an 2:62]


But please you have not answered my question of whether or not there was a Roman expulsion of the Jews from Israel.

Muchos importantes.
Remember that when the Arabs conquered palestine there were christians and Jews there that were made Dhimmi, and that was the 7th century.

Swallow your ego and deal with the reality. Maybe you should use your search engine fairly;and not to post some out-of-point histories.

For the first century of its existence,islam was absolutely soaked in blood. The killing only slowed down as the islamic empire finally ran into boundaries in the 8th century,after about a century of expansionist,imperialist,unprovoked islamic aggression. Even after the initial expansion,the killing did not end. This compendium shows that islamic jihad has for fourteen centuries meant exactly what islamic fundamentalist like bin laden,zaraqawi,and every other so-called islamic fundamentalist says it means: a war to compel the whole world to embrace islam,die,or live under intolerant(which explains the misanthropic and barbaric behavior o muslims show to non-muslims),and humiliating restrictions.

Political islam took turkey and egypt,compelling them to islam after they were conquerd. The first seven churches in asia were destroyed. And jews who surrendered were second class citizens who serve islam(dhimmitude)  in their land.

Islam is the greatest killer of all time. Jihad destroyed a christian middle east and a christian north africa. Soon it was the fate of persian zoroastrian and the hindu to be the victim. Before islam,north africa was part of europe(part of roman empire). Around 60 million christians were slaughtered during the jihadist conquest. Half of the glorious hindus were annihilated and 80 million hindus were killed.

In africa,over 12 milling christians and animist have died over the last 1400 years of jihad. Approximately 270 million unbelievers died over the last 140 yrs for the glory of political islam. All these are some of the tears of islam which are not taught in any shool.

The fact that islamic fundermentalists like: the muslim brotherhood in egypt,al queda,el shabab,hezbollah,al mas,taliban etc,are the one in charge of political scenes and gorernment in various islamic countries not helping matters.

Swallow your ego and deal with the reality. Maybe you should use your search engine fairly;and not to post some out-of-point histories.

For the first century of its existence,islam was absolutely soaked in blood. The killing only slowed down as the islamic empire finally ran into boundaries in the 8th century,after about a century of expansionist,imperialist,unprovoked islamic aggression. Even after the initial expansion,the killing did not end. This compendium shows that islamic jihad has for fourteen centuries meant exactly what islamic fundamentalist like bin laden,zaraqawi,and every other so-called islamic fundamentalist says it means: a war to compel the whole world to embrace islam,die,or live under intolerant(which explains the misanthropic and barbaric behavior o muslims show to non-muslims),and humiliating restrictions.

Political islam took turkey and egypt,compelling them to islam after they were conquerd. The first seven churches in asia were destroyed. And jews who surrendered were second class citizens who serve islam(dhimmitude)  in their land.

Islam is the greatest killer of all time. Jihad destroyed a christian middle east and a christian north africa. Soon it was the fate of persian zoroastrian and the hindu to be the victim. Before islam,north africa was part of europe(part of roman empire). Around 60 million christians were slaughtered during the jihadist conquest. Half of the glorious hindus were annihilated and 80 million hindus were killed.

In africa,over 12 milling christians and animist have died over the last 1400 years of jihad. Approximately 270 million unbelievers died over the last 140 yrs for the glory of political islam. All these are some of the tears of islam which are not taught in any shool.

The fact that islamic fundermentalists like: the muslim brotherhood in egypt,al queda,el shabab,hezbollah,al mas,taliban etc,are the one in charge of political scenes and gorernment in various islamic countries not helping matters.

^^^^

I wonder what kind of mental problem he suffers from? maybe repeating syndrom, where the patient perpetually repeat what he has said in order for it to become true. NB he is yet to respond to a single counter arguement.

well at least palestine would be free if muslim nations were superpowers

@vadexcool:You get alexia? What's with this autistic behaviour,that you cannot comprehend simple comments? Maybe you're just too full of emotions,that you connot reason with reality?

daylae:

Swallow your ego and deal with the reality. Maybe you should use your search engine fairly;and not to post some out-of-point histories.

Okay, ego is now swallowed and I'm washing it down with some ogogoro.  Now please, if I haven't used the search engine fairly ( I went to the first few links that google provided, most of them were Wikipedia the most common source of information) then please post up some links that contradict what I have posted.  
Also could you please tell me how the histories that I've posted are 'out-of-point'.  I got them from wikipedia and if you go there you will see the sources, and furthermore they addressed the POINT that Islam was not forced on the people that were first conquered.  Although life under the Arab empire was such that things would be much easier for you if you became muslim, yet no one was forced to become muslim.  

For the first century of its existence,islam was absolutely soaked in blood. The killing only slowed down as the islamic empire finally ran into boundaries in the 8th century,after about a century of expansionist,imperialist,unprovoked islamic aggression. Even after the initial expansion,the killing did not end. This compendium shows that islamic jihad has for fourteen centuries meant exactly what islamic fundamentalist like bin laden,zaraqawi,and every other so-called islamic fundamentalist says it means: a war to compel the whole world to embrace islam,die,or live under intolerant(which explains the misanthropic and barbaric behavior o muslims show to non-muslims),and humiliating restrictions.

Any empire that is expanding will be soaked in blood.  And when it runs into boundaries the killing will stop.  But what has that got to do with killing people to convert or compel them to islam?  You are conflating 2 very different things here.  They killed people that got in the way of their imperial ambitions.  They didn't kill people in their attempt to convert them to islam.  

Political islam took turkey and egypt,compelling them to islam after they were conquerd. The first seven churches in asia were destroyed. And jews who surrendered were second class citizens who serve islam(dhimmitude)  in their land.

Instead of islam you should write 'the Arabs took turkey and egypt . . .' etc.  Now you make that sound like a bad thing.  Actually the Byzantine Empire was crumbling (egypt and turkey were part of the byzantine empire, acquired of course through invasion in earlier centuries).  It was decaying so fast that the Arabs would have been foolish (in a political sense) not to go in and appropriate their lands.  Yes the Arab empire was made up of the a large part of the Byzantine empire which included north africa, egypt, turkey etc.  But tell me,  were the arabs responsible for the fall of Rome.  Were the arabs responsible for the loss of western europe.  Germanic hordes and barbarians were tearing the byzantine empire apart.  Not to mention Attila the Hun who possibly did more damage to the derelict byzantines than the arabs did.   Byzantine was crumbling and the Arabs were only taking advantage of a failing state.  

For those who may not know, the Byzantine Empire is the later name for the Roman Empire.  The Roman Empire had recently converted to Christianity en masse.  And this incidentally draws a very interesting parallel with the stuff you've been writing above.  First Constantine had legalized christianity, but then a later emperor, Theodosius, declared it the only religion allowed and then ensued an en masse forceful conversion of all the pagans and non christians to Christianity. Pagans were persecuted. etc.  At least the Arabs allowed non moslems to practice their religion in private, under christian byzantine even private observance was a crime.  

Islam is the greatest killer of all time. Jihad destroyed a christian middle east and a christian north africa.

My friend that christian middle east that you are talking about and christian north africa were forcibly made christian by the emperor Theodosius.  The very thing that you are accusing Islam of doing is that was done to those people in the name of christianity.  Ol' boy let me quote wikipedia for you, I no fit shout again.  

Jovian (ruled only 363-364) re-established Christianity as the official religion of the Empire. After him, the empire was ruled jointly by Valentinian I (ruled 364-375), Valens (364-378), Valentinian II (375 - 392), Gratian (375 - 383) and Theodosius I (ruled 379 - 395).
Upon the death of his father, Gratian came under the influence of Ambrose who became his chief advisor,[65][66] and active steps to repress Paganism were taken.[30][67] The influence of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, was a significant force that brought to an end a period of widespread, if unofficial, religious tolerance that had existed since the time of Julian.

In 382, Gratian appropriated the income of the Pagan priests and Vestal Virgins, confiscated the personal possessions of the priestly colleges and ordered another removal of the Altar of Victory.[71][72] The colleges of Pagan priests also lost all their privileges and immunities[b]. Gratian declared that all of the Pagan temples and shrines were to be confiscated by the government and that their revenues were to be joined to the property of the royal treasury.[/b][73][68]

Theodosius, once again assumed the office of emperor in the West. Valentinian II, advised by Ambrose, and in spite of pleas from the Pagans, refused to restore the Altar of Victory to the Senate House, or their income to the priests and Vestal Virgins.[74] In the year 391, Valentinian II issued a law that not only prohibited sacrifices but also forbade anyone from visiting the temples.[75] This again caused turbulence in the West. Valentinian II quickly followed this law with a second one, which declared that Pagan temples were to be closed, a law that was viewed as practically outlawing Paganism.[76]

Rome was more pagan than Christian up until the 390's; Gaul, Spain and northern Italy, in all but the urban areas, were pagan, save Milan which remained half pagan.[30] In the year 392, Theodosius officially began to proscribe the practice of Paganism. This is the time in which he authorized the destruction of many temples throughout the empire.[77] Theodosius issued a comprehensive law that[b] prohibited the performance of any type of Pagan sacrifice or worship,[/b] even within the privacy of a person's own home.[18][78] Theodosius prohibited men from privately honoring their Lares with fire, their Genius with wine, or their Penates with incense. Men were prohibited from such traditions as burning candles or incense and suspending wreaths in honor of the deities. Theodosius also prohibited the practice of all forms of divination, even those forms of divination that were not considered harmful to the welfare of the Emperor, with this wide-ranging law. The laws were particularly hard against the Manicheans who were deprived of the right to make wills or to benefit from them. Manicheans could be sought out by informers, brought to court and in some cases executed.[4] Paganism was now proscribed, a "religio illicita".[79]

In 393, Theodosius was ready to begin his war against Eugenius and Arbogastes. The battle that ensued became, in essence, a battle for the survival of Paganism.[80] The defeat of Eugenius by Theodosius in 394 led to the final separation of Paganism from the state.

Despite this setback on their religion, the Pagans remained outspoken in their demands for toleration.[82] Many Pagans simply pretended to convert as an obvious instrument of advancement.

This is supplemented in abundance by archaeological evidence in the northern provinces (for which written sources hardly survive) exposing broken and burnt out buildings and hastily buried objects of piety.[30] The leader of the Egyptian monks who participated in the sack of temples replied to the victims who demanded back their sacred icons: "I peacefully removed your gods, there is no such thing as robbery for those who truly possess Christ.[30]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_religion_in_ancient_Rome

"I peacefully removed your gods, there is no such thing as robbery for those who truly possess Christ.

 This quote sounds like a certain Pastor Oyaks.  

So you see, my friend, those north african and middle east christians that were allowed to continue practicing under Arab conquest as Dhimmi were in fact mostly forced into the christianity in the first place.  

Soon it was the fate of persian zoroastrian and the hindu to be the victim. Before islam,north africa was part of europe(part of roman empire). Around 60 million christians were slaughtered during the jihadist conquest. Half of the glorious hindus were annihilated and 80 million hindus were killed.

In africa,over 12 milling christians and animist have died over the last 1400 years of jihad. Approximately 270 million unbelievers died over the last 140 yrs for the glory of political islam. All these are some of the tears of islam which are not taught in any shool.

My friend, I need references for those facts and figures that you quoted above.  You can't just pull numbers out of your hat and use them in a discussion such as this.  Can you not see me referring you to wiki, and other websites.  

But back to an earlier point.  Nature abhors a vacuum.  Christian byzantine was crumbling from within and the Arabs were expanding.  It only made sense that they would overrun the empire of the byzantines which included north africa, palestine, and turkey and india and persia etc etc etc.  For the most part all they really did was take over large chunks of an empire that was already there, earlier conquered by rome.  

Like I said, the Goths and the Vandals and other germanic hordes were doing the same thing to Rome from the western side, only difference was that they were not as organised as the muslims and they didn't really have any ideology or imperial ambitions, they just wanted to wreak mayhem.  In 476AD Rome fell to the germans.  But in 410AD it got it's real first blow from Alaric the Visigoth who sacked the city.  That was the blow that dazed them, and made other subsequent attacks easier and easier.  
The fact that it was only 20 years after the pagan temples were closed down and christianity declared the official religion was an embarrassment to the christian authorities.  Many people were saying that it was because they had turned away from the gods of their ancestors that Rome fell.  The embarrassment was so Great that Saint Augustine wrote one of his Greatest works called [b]City of God [/b]to counter what people were saying.  

The City of God (Latin: De Civitate Dei, also known as De Civitate Dei contra Paganos, "The City of God against the Pagans" is a book written in Latin by Augustine of Hippo in the early 5th century, dealing with issues concerning God, martyrdom, Jews, and other aspects of Christian philosophy.

It was written soon after Rome was sacked by the Visigoths in 410. This event left Romans in a deep state of shock, and many saw it as punishment for abandoning their Roman religion. It was in this atmosphere that Augustine set out to console Christians, writing that, even if the earthly rule of the empire was imperiled, it was the City of God that would ultimately triumph — Augustine's eyes were fixed on Heaven, a theme of many Christian works of Late Antiquity.
Despite Christianity's designation as the official religion of the empire, Augustine declared its message to be spiritual rather than political. Christianity, he argued, should be concerned with the mystical, heavenly city the New Jerusalem — rather than with earthly politics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_God_(book)

The fact is that early Catholic Christianity as a State religion also had imperialistic ambitions and they failed woefully, and St. Augustine wrote City of God to console them that it is not earthly empire that they should worry about but that the real City of God is in Heaven.  

Why did Rome Fall?

There are adherents to single factors, but more people think a combination of such factors as Christianity, decadence, lead, monetary trouble, and military problems caused the Fall of Rome. Imperial incompetence and chance could be added to the list. Even the rise of Islam is proposed as the reason for Rome's fall, by some who think the Fall of Rome happened at Constantinople in A.D. 1453.

manmustwac:

well at least palestine would be free if muslim nations were superpowers

Please sir, can you tell me what happened to the Jews after the Romans put down the Revolt of Simon Bar Kochba? Was there a Roman exile?

^^^

His heart is stone hearted , rejecting the truth in any form of occurence! with all you quoted he is just going to repeat the same bull that he wrote before.

daylae:

In nigeria,a muslim will practice his religion in the christian dominated south without the fear of being attacked or victimed. Whereas in the muslim dominated north,christians are most of the time attacked and killed for ridiculous reasons like touching of the quran. You just have to be careful showing your religion identity,because of fear.

Uhmmmm

Wumine:

Uhmmmm

sadly,this is just the truth.

daylae:

sadly,this is just the truth.

Oh, so you dey around. I been think say maybe you never come online that's why you no respond. So most christians that touch koran are attacked and killed in the north of nigeria. na wa for you o! you just jump from one dumbassed allegation to another.

I take it you don't have anything to say about your previous allegations that Muslim superpowers will force islam on everybody.

I guess surfing is your heartbeat? And you can't risk doing something else apart from,cus you just might crash? Hey, but, not me. I gat other things. Just need to check on you a while.

To the topic:its preposterous you think all knowledge of imformation had to be sourced from the net before it can be valid>>>that you're asking to post the link to my facts and figures. I assure you,i got these from a good source. And i don't have the time to make things up just to foster my points.

Wiki doesn't have a mind of his own. You only got what you wanted him to search. I suggest you try phrase like: conquest of islamic jihadist, persecutions of christians, and antisemitism; maybe you might just see what you've been missing this whole time,and read for your sole pleasure.


The only reason islamic propagators and die-hard fundamentalist are not considering the old jihadic principles of mohamed today is because they know that a direct confrontation of non-muslims will be a swift suicide. Hadn't so,the old dream of mohamed compelling the world to islam would have been so revived . Now they choose the method of "selective terror attacks,"to maintain the brim of hatred,which the world is still feeling the heat.

In a world of universal deceit and pretence,saying the truth without meddling your gutt is a revolutionary act;and not everyone will like to hear it,or agree.

And,in as much as i like to confer,i knew this will be andless from the begining because of certain convictions we wouldn't want anyone take away from us.

daylae:

, you're asking to post the link to my facts and figures. I assure you,i got these from a good source. And i don't have the time to make things up just to foster my points.

I have been following this since from the beginning, men this guy doesnt have facts, if he has one he would have post them since, (he cannot even sabi copy n paste, like other fanatics do) he is just beating about the bush, he has seen facts and links but never make a sinsible respond to any of them.

I suggest Pastor AIO should ignore him for the mean time, may be we would have much time to study next time. Because to me it seems he started something without facts and links that will supports his fallicible claims which he can NEVER win, and seems he forgot nairaland has thousands of readers who only respond to post with facts and link to clarify things.

Sorry for you guy, better think of another comics, not joking without facts.

drjayzee:

I have been following this since from the beginning, men this guy doesnt have facts, if he has one he would have post them since, (he cannot even sabi copy n paste, like other fanatics do) he is just beating about the bush, he has seen facts and links but never make a sinsible respond to any of them.

I suggest Pastor AIO should ignore him for the mean time, may be we would have much time to study next time. Because to me it seems he started something without facts and links that will supports his fallicible claims which he can NEVER win, and seems he forgot nairaland has thousands of readers who only respond to post with facts and link to clarify things.

Sorry for you guy, better think of another comics, not joking without facts.

Only a chronic buffoon can make statements like this. Your 16th post,and you're already showing all bellicose tendencies. Crank!!! AIO should know not all informations at one's disposal are sourced from the net.

@ AIO: http://markhumphrys.com/islam.killings.html

^^^ av been following. Why didn't you post the link earlier? @topic: am not a muslim,niether am i a christian. But is safer being around a christian fanatic than a muslim one. Av lived in maiduguri,and i know what am saying. But not that christians are saints too.

^^saw the piece somewhere. Had to search the name for relevance. But they are other links confirming the same. AI0 was just posting stories of historical conquest.

No one is a saint,but the thread was not started for this. At least christians don't go about confessing people to islam against their will. Moors,ottoman,and other islamic empires did. And it started at the emmergence of islam itself. The level of hostilities and misanthropic behaviour islamic states show to non-muslims today is sure contrast.

daylae:

^^saw the piece somewhere. Had to search the name for relevance. But they are other links confirming the same. AI0 was just posting stories of historical conquest.

No one is a saint,but the thread was not started for this. At least christians don't go about confessing people to islam against their will. Moors,ottoman,and other islamic empires did. And it started at the emmergence of islam itself. The level of hostilities and misanthropic behaviour islamic states show to non-muslims today is sure contrast.

Sharrap there my guy!! I'm still coming back to deal with you. I've just been busy for a while but I checked your link. Very funny. Ludicrously funny in fact. I have limited time so I'll do it slowly over a couple of days.

drjayzee:

I have been following this since from the beginning, men this guy doesnt have facts, if he has one he would have post them since[b], (he cannot even sabi copy n paste, like other fanatics do)[/b] he is just beating about the bush, he has seen facts and links but never make a sinsible respond to any of them.

You spoke too fast. In fact he does sabi copy and paste, like other fanatics. Only that you wouldn't know that it was copy and paste because the source he is copying from is just as dim-witted as he is so you won't tell that there is a difference.

The book The Legacy of Jihad. Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims (and here)
Review: "This compendium shows that Islamic jihad has for fourteen centuries meant exactly what bin Laden, Zaraqawi, and every other so-called "Islamic fundamentalist" says it means: a war to compel the whole world to embrace Islam, die, or live under intolerant, humiliating restrictions"

Bill Warner interview, Feb 2007:
"First, let's see how ignorant we are about the history of political Islam. How many Christians can tell you how Turkey or Egypt became Islamic? What happened to the Seven Churches of Asia mentioned in Paul's letters? Find a Jew who can tell you the Jewish history of dhimmitude (second class citizens who serve Islam). What European knows that white women were the highest priced slaves in Mecca? Everyone knows how many Jews Hitler killed, but find an unbeliever who can tell you how many died in jihad over the last 1400 years."

He claims that Islam is the greatest killer of all time, worse than Christianity, fascism or communism:
"Jihad destroyed a Christian Middle East and a Christian North Africa. Soon it was the fate of the Persian Zoroastrian and the Hindu to be the victims of jihad. The history of political Islam is the destruction of Christianity in the Middle East, Egypt, Turkey and North Africa. Half of Christianity was lost. Before Islam, North Africa was the southern part of Europe (part of the Roman Empire). Around 60 million Christians were slaughtered during the jihadic conquest. Half of the glorious Hindu civilization was annihilated and 80 million Hindus killed. The first Western Buddhists were the Greeks descended from Alexander the Great's army in what is now Afghanistan. Jihad destroyed all of Buddhism along the silk route. About 10 million Buddhists died. The conquest of Buddhism is the practical result of pacifism. Zoroastrianism was eliminated from Persia. The Jews became permanent dhimmis throughout Islam. In Africa over 120 million Christians and animists have died over the last 1400 years of jihad. Approximately 270 million nonbelievers died over the last 1400 years for the glory of political Islam. These are the Tears of Jihad which are not taught in any school."

Yes, copy and paste indeed. The interesting thing about his copy and pasting though is that it was not indiscriminate. He missed out the part about the 'practical result of pacifism'. In other words the speaker was advocating violence as a response to this imagined threat. Why? Because if you are pacifist then the practical result will be extinction like the buddhists along the Silk Route.
But Why the call to arms? What is the context of all this?

I'll tell you. The site is a Right Wing White Supremacist Website. The guy he is quoting from Bill Warner, who by the way is not a scholar but is a private investigator (yeah, like Dick Tracey) from Florida (on of the remaining heartlands of the KKK). The guy himself seems to have a very colourful life. Just google him and you'll get so much entertaining information.

Is this guy so afraid of muslims that he is now running to the arms of Stormfront and KKK to protect him and give him the information about Islamic history? Yeeee paripa o!

I'll be back with a more detailed break down of what I read in that link that he provided. All that misinformation that is better than historical facts in his opinion.

Meanwhile, here's some homework for anyone that might be interested. Google Bill Warner, private investigator.

The previous video links I posted on Arab spain might have been dodgy so I'm posting up this youtube link on the documentary.  Please watch it and enjoy.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_N27wqbdlI

[Center]Bismillaah ir Rahmaan ir Rahiim In The Name of Allah, The Only GOD, The Most Merciful, The All Merciful. As salaamu 'alaikum, everyone.[/Center]



[Quote]The book The Legacy of Jihad Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims (and here)
Review: "This compendium shows that Islamic jihad has for fourteen centuries meant exactly what bin Laden, Zaraqawi, and every other so-called "Islamic fundamentalist" says it means: a war to compel the whole world to embrace Islam, die, or live under intolerant, humiliating restrictions"[/Quote]

The only reality standng in the way of total enslavement of the earth, is Islam. So, have your pick. If you have the time watch this video.  The heavy issues begin to jump off at the 48:00 mark.

ENDGAME- ALEX JONES - Blueprint for Global Enslavement