I've long said that covering the military in the United
States is like covering wine and cheese
in France. Herewith, then, relying in part on your suggestions
from last week, both in comments and e-mails, I've compiled our equivalent of
their very minor cheeses. I am impressed that the Seminole Wars are
sufficiently well known not to make this list -- war historian Russell Weigley was interesting about them. I would quote from his books but I am writing this item away from my library
and on the road, in a Red Roof Inn behind a Hooter's in West Springfield,
Massachusetts.
The U.S. intervention in Russia after World War I makes the
honorable mention list -- it got knocked off at the last minute by the
Sheepeater War. By contrast, I don't think the Fenian Raids into Canada make
it, because my guess is that there was more singing than fighting going on.
I am not sure how to rank obscurity, so I have listed them
chronologically.
-
War
of Jenkin's Ear, 1739-1748ish
-
St.
Clair's Defeat, 1791 (AKA Battle of the Wabash)
-
Winnebago
War of 1827
-
Black
Hawk War, 1832
-
Mormon
War, 1857-58
-
The
Pig War, 1859
-
Little
Crow's War/Great Sioux Uprising/Dakota War, 1862
-
Modoc
War (Lava Beds War), 1872-1873
-
The
Sheepeater War, 1879
-
Invasion of Hawaii, 1893
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