page_title: List of armed conflicts involving the United States
section_title: 19th-century
hierarchical_section_title: List of armed conflicts involving the United States / 19th-century
caption_attribution_description: English: Harper's Weekly Illustration of U.S. Marines attacking the firehouse which John Brown used as a fort during his raid on Harper's Ferry. From: http://data2.itc.nps.gov/hafe/detail.cfm?Image_No=hf%2D0115 Caption: 'Harper's Weekly' in November 1859 reads: "The Harper's Ferry Insurrection.--The U.S. Marines storming the Engine-House.--Insurgents firing through holes in the wall." Year: 1859. Image Credit: Historic Photo Collection, Harpers Ferry NHP.
context_page_description: The history of armed conflicts involving the United States of America spans a period of more than four centuries. A period ranging from the early era of European colonization and the formation of the new national polity that is to become the United States, to its evolvement through technological and political upheavals into a decisively modern republic and military force, and ascent onto the world stage, through the calamities of the 20th century, as the largely unrivaled imperial superpower that it is today.
caption: Harper's Weekly illustration of U.S. Marines attacking John Brown's "Fort" Teresa Baine
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