Description: A world map from 1907 showing significant foreign military expeditions and battle sites of United States between 1775 and 1906. The map shows locations of military involvement from the American Revolutionary War with the Battle of Quebec (1775) and the naval raid by John Paul Jones on Whitehaven, England (1778), the French and Indian War sites of Kaskaskia (1778, 1779), Iroquois (1779), and Vincennes (1779), the Barbary Wars sites of Tripoli (1801), Morocco (1803), and Algiers (1815), Jackson's excursions into West Florida (1810, 1813), the War of 1812 sites of Canada (1812, 1814), Amelia Island, 1812, 1817), the Seminole Wars in East Florida (1814, 1818), the destruction of Puerto Luis on the Falklands (1831), the territories of the era of the Monroe Doctrine, Mexican War, and Manifest Destiny, including Texas (1836), Monterey (1842, 1846), San Diego (1846), Santa Fe (1846), Mexico (1847), Matamoras (1865), Buena Vista (1847), the American expansion into the Orient with the expeditions and battles of Qualla Battoo (1832, 1838), Japan (1853, 1854), China (1854, 1856), Shimonoseski (1863, 1864), the bombardment of Greytown, Nicaragua (1854) and Paraguay (1859), expansion of Pacific South Seas territorial claims in Samoa (1877, 1876, 1886, 1893), and Hawaii (1874, 1889, 1893), the expedition into Korea (1871), the Spanish-American War sites of Santiago (1898), Porto Rico (1898), Manila (1898), the Boxer Revolution in Pekin (Beijing) (1900), and the revolution in Cuba (1906).
Place Names: Regional Miscellaneous, Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South Americ
ISO Topic Categories: physical, historical, kWorldPacific, kWorldAtlantic, kWorldAmericas
Keywords: Military Expeditions of the United States of America, physical, historical, physical features, American Revolution,
other military, physical, historical, kWorldPacific, kWorldAtlantic, kWorldAmericas, Unknown, 1775–1906
Source: Albert Bushnell Hart, L.L.D., The American Nation Vol. 26 (New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1907) 324
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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