Retired Geek - United States War Timeline 1775 - 1815

Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May. Formerly known as Decoration Day, it commemorates U.S. soldiers who died while in the military service. First enacted to honor Union soldiers of the American Civil War. It was extended after World War I to honor Americans who have died in all wars.

American Revolutionary War (1775 to 1783)

The American Revolutionary War, also known as the American War of Independence, was a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the thirteen "United Colonies" which expelled royal officials in 1775, set up the Second Continental Congress, formed an army, and declared their independence as a new nation, the United States of America in 1776. The war was the culmination of the political American Revolution, whereby the colonists overthrew British rule. By 1778 major European powers had joined against Britain. U.S. Casualties: 4435 deaths, 6188 wounded

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First Barbary War (1801 to 1805)

The First Barbary War (also known as the Barbary Coast War or the Tripolitan War) was the first of two wars fought between the United States of America and the North African states known collectively as the Barbary States. These were the independent Sultanate of Morocco, and the three Regencies of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, which were quasi-independent entities nominally belonging to the Ottoman Empire. U.S. Casualties: 2 deaths, 3 wounded in action.

This War involved Islamic Pirates from North Africa.

The Muslims main source of income was the white slave trade that involved sailors and passengers from Europe and America that had been captured while Pirating ships.

The historian Robert Davis, in his book 'Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters': White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast and Italy, 1500-1800, estimates that as many as 1.25 million Europeans and Americans were enslaved, tortured and worked to death by their Islamic masters.

Thomas Jefferson asked the Ambassador from the Muslim Countries of North Africa why the American People were being attacked, enslaved or murdered, when America had never menaced or quarreled with any of the Muslim powers?

Thomas Jefferson later reported to the State Department and Congress:
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"The Ambassador answered us that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners."

The Marine Corps 'Battle Hymn' (the oldest military hymn) mentions the Jihad against America by Muslim Terrorists circa 1805.

From the Halls of Montezuma,
To the shores of Tripoli; - (Libya and Muslim Terrorists attacks)
We fight our country's battles
In the air, on land, and sea;
First to fight for right and freedom
And to keep our honor clean;
We are proud to claim the title
Of United States Marine.

Islamic terrorists have attacked, enslaved and 'Murdered' Americans for over 200 years.

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War of 1812 (1812 to 1815)

US and British Interests Collide -- Setting up War of 1812: President James Madison asked the United States Congress to declare war on the British Empire. In his war message, Madison took principal aim at Britain's complete disregard of US sovereignty on the high seas:

British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the great highway of nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it, not in the exercise of a belligerent right founded on the law of nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. U.S. Casualties: 20,000 deaths, 4505 wounded in action

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