Thursday, March 29, 2012

Re: We are a peace-loving people.

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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]
1861–65 – 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]
1865–77 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 a civil war (Boshin 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, Mexico, temporarily while it was without other
government.[RL30172]
1878 - Lincoln County, New Mexico. July 15 - July 19. During the
Battle of Lincoln (1878) (part of the Lincoln County War) 150 cavalry-
men arrived from Fort Stanton, under the command of Lieutenant George
Smith (later Colonel Nathan Dudley) to assist the Murphy-Dolan Faction
in attacking the Lincoln County Regulators vigilante group. 5 dead,
8-28 wounded
[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 (Colón). 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 Colón 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 Valparaíso.[RL30172]
1892 - Homestead strike, On July 6. Striking miners attack Pinkerton
National Detective Agency agents attempting to break the strike by
bringing non-union workers to the mine. 6,000 Pennsylvania state
militiamen sent to reinstate law and order. 16 dead, 27-47 wounded
1892 - Wyoming. April 11 to April 13. U.S. Cavalry sent to breakup a
gun battle at the TA Ranch. Johnson County War
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]
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
Filipino revolutionaries 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
uprising, 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.(False, this was a military
occupation)[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]

On Mar 28, 2:36 pm, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is some total Moonbattery here.
>
> The purported "Indian Wars"  lasted 81 years?   Har Har Har!  (Why not use
> the dates, 1775 through say,  1925?)
>
> The chart and the allegation that we've only had 21 years of peace is also
> ridiculous.   From 1918 (the end of the First World War)  to the start of
> World War II in 1945 would be 23 years in and of itself.  Seems like there
> was a good fifteen year break from Viet-Nam to the Gulf War,  and almost as
> much between the Gulf War and whatever the Hell you would call it when we
> went back over to Iraq.....
>
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 3:31 PM, plainolamerican
> <plainolameri...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > American Revolution (1775–1783)
> > Total servicemembers    217,000
> > Battle deaths   4,435
> > Nonmortal woundings     6,188
> > War of 1812 (1812–1815)
> > Total servicemembers    286,730
> > Battle deaths   2,260
> > Nonmortal woundings     4,505
> > Indian Wars (approx. 1817–1898)
> > Total servicemembers    106,0001
> > Battle deaths   1,0001
> > Mexican War (1846–1848)
> > Total servicemembers    78,718
> > Battle deaths   1,733
> > Other deaths in service (nontheater)    11,550
> > Nonmortal woundings     4,152
> > Civil War (1861–1865)
> > Total servicemembers (Union)    2,213,363
> > Battle deaths (Union)   140,414
> > Other deaths in service (nontheater) (Union)    224,097
> > Nonmortal woundings (Union)     281,881
> > Total servicemembers (Conf.)    1,050,000
> > Battle deaths (Conf.)   74,524
> > Other deaths in service (nontheater) (Conf.)    59,2972
> > Nonmortal woundings (Conf.)     unknown
> > Spanish-American War (1898–1902)
> > Total servicemembers    306,760
> > Battle deaths   385
> > Other deaths in service (nontheater)    2,061
> > Nonmortal woundings     1,662
> > World War I (1917–1918)3
> > Total servicemembers    4,734,991
> > Battle deaths   53,402
> > Other deaths in service (nontheater)    63,114
> > Nonmortal woundings     204,002
> > Living veterans         fewer than 251
> > World War II (1940–1945)3
> > Total servicemembers    16,112,566
> > Battle deaths   291,557
> > Other deaths in service (nontheater)    113,842
> > Nonmortal woundings     671,846
> > Living veterans         3,242,0001
> > Korean War (1950–1953)
> > Total servicemembers    5,720,000
> > Serving in-theater      1,789,000
> > Battle deaths   33,741
> > Other deaths in service (theater)       2,833
> > Other deaths in service (nontheater)    17,672
> > Nonmortal woundings     103,284
> > Living veterans         3,086,4001
> > Vietnam War (1964–1975)
> > Total servicemembers    8,744,000
> > Serving in-theater      3,403,000
> > Battle deaths   47,424
> > Other deaths in service (theater)       10,785
> > Other deaths in service (nontheater)    32,000
> > Nonmortal woundings     153,303
> > Living veterans         7,286,5001
> > Gulf War (1990–1991)
> > Total servicemembers    2,225,000
> > Serving in-theater      665,476
> > Battle deaths   147
> > Other deaths in service (theater)       382
> > Other deaths in service (nontheater)    1,565
> > Nonmortal woundings     467
> > Living veterans         1,852,0001
> > America's Wars Total (1775–1991)
> > Military service during war     41,891,368
> > Battle deaths   651,030
> > Other deaths in service (theater)       308,800
> > Other deaths in service (nontheater)    230,279
> > Nonmortal woundings     1,431,290
> > Living war veterans     17,456,0004
> > Living veterans         23,442,000
> > Global War on Terror 5
> > Total Servicemembers (Worldwide) (as of Dec 31, 2010)   1,429,367
> > Deployed to Iraq (Operation New Dawn) (as of Dec. 31, 2010)     85,600
> > Deployed to Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom)(as of Dec. 31,
> > 2010)   103,700
> > Battle Deaths (as of May 12, 2011)      4,724
> > Other Deaths (In Theater) (as of May 12, 2011)  1,294
> > Non-mortal Woundings (as of May 12, 2011)       43,399
>
> > Read more: America's Wars: U.S. Casualties and Veterans —
> > Infoplease.comhttp://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004615.html#ixzz1qRRNWCUa
>
> > On Mar 28, 1:38 pm, MJ <micha...@america.net> wrote:
> > > "We are a peace-loving people." -- Anthony Gregory
>
> > >  19c55e4c.jpg
> > > 34KViewDownload
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