HIST 4290 U.S. Military History
military history
3 Cs of warfare
objective
offensive
mass/concentration
economy of force
maneuver
unity of command
security
surprise
simplicity
strategy
grand strategy
tactics
turning movement
envelopment
double envelopment
logistics
lines of communications
theater of operations/area of responsibility
Old World warfare
linear tactics
militia
stronghold defense
Indian conflicts
Indian tactics
Tidewater Wars (1622-1632; 1644-1646)
King Philip’s War (1675-1676)
Indian alliances
King William’s War (1689-1697)
Treaty of Ryswick (1697)
Queene Anne’s War (1701-1713)
Treaty of Utrecht (1713)
King George’s War (1744-1748)
Robert Jenkins
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748)
French and Indian War (1754-1763)
Fort Duquesne
Colonel George Washington
Fort Necessity
General Edward Braddock
Quebec/Plains of Abraham
General James Wolfe
Treaty of Paris (1763)
First Continental Congress
General Thomas Gage
Lexington/Concord (19 April 1775)
strategy of attrition
Second Continental Congress
Bunker Hill/Breed’s Hill (17 June 1775)
Sir William Howe
Continental Army
General George Washington
Ticonderoga
General Henry Knox
Boston (17 March 1776)
New York Campaign
Long Island (27 August 1776)
Manhattan (15 September 1776)
White Plains (28 October 1776)
New Jersey Campaign
Trenton (26 December 1776)
Princeton (3 January 1777)
Philadelphia plan
Brandywine (11 September 1777)
Germantown (4 October 1777)
General John Burgoyne
General Philip Schuyler/General Horatio Gates
Saratoga (17 October 1777)
France
Treaty of Alliance and Commerce (1778)
Valley Forge
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
General Henry Clinton
Monmouth Court House (27 June 1778)
partisan warfare
Savannah (29 December 1778)
Robert Howe/Archibald Campbell
General Benjamin Lincoln
Siege of Savannah
Charleston (12 May 1780)
General Charles Cornwallis
Colonel Banastre Tarleton
Waxhaws (29 May 1780)
Colonel Francis Marion
General Horatio Gates
Camden (16 August 1780)
King’s Mountain (7 October 1780)
General Nathanael Greene
General Daniel Morgan
Cowpens (17 January 1781)
Guilford Courthouse (15 March 1781)
Yorktown (17 October 1781)
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Newburgh “Conspiracy” (1783)
Society of the Cincinnati
demobilization
First American Regiment
Constitution
Department of War
Militia Act of 1792
General Anthony Wayne
Fallen Timbers (20 August 1794)
Treaty of Greenville (1795)
Quasi War (1798-1800)
Department of the Navy
Military Peace Establishment Act (1802)
West Point
Sylvanus Thayer
Tecumseh
General William H. Harrison
Tippecanoe (7 November 1811)
Impressment
USS Chesapeake
War Hawks (1810)
General William Hull
Fort Detroit (16 August 1812)
General Stephen van Rensselaer
Queenston (13 October 1812)
General Henry Dearborn
Frenchtown (22 January 1813)
“Remember the Raisin”
Lake Ontario Campaign
Commodore Oliver Perry
Lake Erie (10 September 1813)
Battle of the Thames (5 October 1813)
Montreal Campaign
General Andrew Jackson
Horseshoe Bend (27 March 1814)
Washington, D.C.
Bladensburg (24 August 1814)
New Orleans (8 January 1815)
Treaty of Ghent (1814)
Seminole Indians
Nicholls/Arbuthnot/Armbrister
Fort Scott (27 November 1817)
First Seminole War (1817-1818)
Billy Bowlegs
St. Marks (7 April 1818)
Pensacola
Adams-Onis Treaty (1819)
Chief Osceola
Dade Massacre (28 December 1835)
Second Seminole War (1835-1842)
Scott/Jesup/Taylor/Armistead/Worth
Third Seminole War (1855-1858)
Texas Revolution
Alamo (6 March 1836)
“Remember the Alamo”
Goliad (27 March 1836)
San Jacinto (21 April 1836)
Texas Annexation (1 March 1845)
Rio Grande/Nueces
General Zachary Taylor
Fort Texas (25 April 1846)
Palo Alto (8 May 1846)
Resaca de la Palma (9 May 1846)
Monterey Campaign
General Winfield Scott
Buena Vista (22-23 February 1847)
Vera Cruz (9 March 1847)
Mexico City Campaign
Cerro Gordo (18 April 1847)
Contreras/Churubusco/Chapultepec
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo (1848)
FIRST EXAM
Antoine Henry Jomini
Henry Halleck
Dennis Hart Mahan
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln
secession
Fort Sumter
Robert Anderson
P.G.T. Beauregard
Proclamation of Insurrection
North-South comparison
Military geography
Eastern Theater
Western Theater
Trans-Mississippi Theater
Anaconda Plan
Union command structure
Confederate command structure
Wilson’s Creek (10 August 1861)
Belmont (7 November 1861)
Philippi (3 June 1861)/Rich Mountain (11 July 1861)
First Bull Run/Manassas (21 July 1861)
Irvin McDowell
Beauregard/Joseph E. Johnston
Thomas J. Jackson
blockade
New Orleans
David G. Farragut
Benjamin F. Butler
Pea Ridge (7-8 March 1862)
Henry-Donelson Campaign
U.S. Grant
Nathan B. Forrest
Shiloh (6-7 April 1862)
Albert S. Johnston
Lew Wallace/Don Carlos Buell
Corinth Campaign
Henry W. Halleck
Kentucky Invasion
Braxton Bragg
Perryville (8 October 1862)
Don C. Buell
William S. Rosecrans
Stones River/Murfreesboro (31 December 1862)
Monitor vs. Merrimack (8 March 1862)
Peninsula Campaign
George B. McClellan
Shenandoah Valley Campaign
Fair Oaks/Seven Pines (31 May 1862)
Robert E. Lee
Jeb Stuart
Seven Days’ Battles
Second Bull Run/Manassas (29-30 August 1862)
John Pope
Antietam/Sharpsburg (17 September 1862)
Emancipation Proclamation
Fredericksburg (13 December 1862)
Ambrose E. Burnside
“Mud March”
Chancellorsville (2-5 May 1863)
Joseph Hooker
Jackson’s Flank March
Gettysburg (1-3 July 1863)
George G. Meade
20th Maine/Little Round Top
Pickett’s Charge
Vicksburg Campaign
Grierson’s Raid
Chickamauga (19-20 September 1863)
William S. Rosecrans
George H. Thomas
Chattanooga (23-25 November 1863)
Missionary Ridge
Overland Campaign
Wilderness (5-6 May 1864)
Spotsylvania (8-12 May 1864)
Cold Harbor (3 June 1864)
Petersburg Siege
“The Crater” (30 July 1864)
Atlanta Campaign
William T. Sherman
Kennesaw Mountain
John B. Hood
“March to the Sea”
Franklin (30 November 1864)
Nashville (15-16 December 1864)
Appomattox (9 April 1865)
March Through the Carolinas
Durham Station (26 April 1865)
Wilson’s Raid
Grand Review (23-24 May 1865)
Mexico
Reconstruction
Gatling gun
smokeless powder
Indian Wars
Indian strategy
Colonel John M. Chivington
Sand Creek Massacre (29 November 1864)
Sioux War of 1865-1867
Bozeman Trail
Fetterman Massacre (21 December 1866)
Fort Laramie Treaty (1868)
General Phil Sheridan
Battle of the Washita (27 November 1868)
Red River War (1874-1875)
Great Sioux War of 1876
Sitting Bull/Crazy Horse
Lt. Col. George A. Custer/7th Cavalry
Little Big Horn (25 June 1876)
Nez Perce War (1877)
Chief Joseph
Wounded Knee (29 December 1890)
Virginius affair (1873)
Naval Appropriations Act of 1883
“White Squadron”
Stephen B. Luce
Naval War College (1884)
Alfred T. Mahan
Benjamin F. Tracy
Naval Act of 1890
Emory Upton
Cuban Revolution
USS Maine
“Remember the Maine”
Teller Amendment
Spanish-American War
Commodore George Dewey
Manila Bay (1 May 1898)
Santiago Campaign
San Juan Hill/Kettle Hill (1 July 1898)
San Juan (Puerto Rico)
Manila (13 August 1898)
Treaty of Paris (1899)
Philippine Insurrection (1899-1902)
Boxer Rebellion (1900)
Theodore Roosevelt
Great White Fleet
SECOND EXAM
General Staff (1903)
Army War College (1903)
Mexico/Pancho Villa
World War I
Naval Act of 1916
National Defense Act of 1916
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare (1917)
Zimmermann Telegram
convoy system
Selective Service Act of 1917
John J. Pershing
American Expeditionary Force (AEF)
trench warfare
Marne salient
Marne counteroffensive (18 July-6 August 1918)
St. Mihiel offensive (12-16 September 1918)
Meuse-Argonne offensive (26 September-8 November 1918)
Treaty of Versailles (1919)
Tank Corps
Billy Mitchell
Air Corps Act (1926)
World War II
Selective Service Act of 1940
Tydings Amendment
Victory Program
Hideki Tojo
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
Admiral Husband E. Kimmel
General Walter C. Short
Pearl Harbor
North African Campaign
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
Casablanca, Oran, Algiers
Kasserine Pass
General George S. Patton
Sicilian Campaign
Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery
Messina/Palermo
General Douglas MacArthur
Philippine Campaign
Corregidor
Bataan Death March
Doolittle Raid
Plan Orange
Admiral Chester Nimitz
Coral Sea
Midway
Guadalcanal
Tarawa/Betio
Italian Campaign
Salerno
General Mark Clark
Monte Cassino
Anzio
Rome
Normandy Invasion/D-Day
Operation Fortitude
Utah, Omaha
Rommel/Rundstedt
Replacements
Hedgerows
Falaise pocket
Paris
Anvil-Dragoon
broad front vs. narrow front
Market-Garden
Battle of the Bulge
Malmedy
Bastogne
Dresden
Remagen
Torgau
Berlin
V-E Day (May 8, 1945)
Saipan
Philippine Sea
Peleliu
“defense in depth”
Leyte Gulf
kamikaze
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
General Curtis LeMay
Manhattan Project
Potsdam Declaration
Hiroshima/Nagasaki
V-J Day (August 14, 1945)
WAAC/WAC
WAVES
SPAR
WASP
National Security Act (1947)
Executive Order 9981 (1948)
Women’s Armed Service Act of 1948
containment
NATO
Korean War
THIRD EXAM