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United States Army

land service branch of the United States Armed Forces

31 dated entries naming United States Army, drawn from 27 separate years between 1745 CE and 1999 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as American Army, U.S. Army, US Army, US Soldier, US soldier, US soldiers in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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18th century

  • 1745January 1 – Anthony Wayne, United States Army officer, statesman and member of the United States House of Representatives (died 1796)source
  • 1750July 25 – Henry Knox, military officer of the Continental Army and later the United States Army, 1st United States Secretary of War (died 1806)source
  • 1766October 3 – John Walbach, French baron and officer in the United States Army, with a military career spanning over 57 years (died 1857)source
  • 1784February 20 – John E. Wool, general officer in the United States Army, who served during the War of 1812, Mexican–American War, and the American Civil War (died 1869)source
  • 1789September 29 – The U.S. Department of War establishes the nation's first regular army, with a strength of several hundred men.source
  • 1796December 15 – Anthony Wayne, United States Army officer, statesman, and member of the United States House of Representatives (born 1745)source

19th century

  • 1856November 17 – American Old West: On the Sonoita River in modern-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan, in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.source
  • 1861October 31 – American Civil War: Citing failing health, 75-year-old Union General Winfield Scott resigns as Commander of the United States Army.source
  • 1863January 29 – American Indian Wars – Bear River Massacre: The United States Army, led by General Patrick Edward Connor, massacres Chief Bear Hunter and forces of the Shoshone, in the Idaho Territory.source
  • 1868November 27 – Indian Wars – Battle of Washita River: In the early morning, United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on a band of Cheyenne living on reservation land with Chief Black Kettle, killing 103 Cheyenne.source
  • 1869November 10 – John E. Wool, general officer in the United States Army, who served during the War of 1812, Mexican–American War, and the American Civil War (born 1784)source
  • 1871March 22 – The United States Army issues an order for the abandonment of Fort Kearny, Nebraska.source
  • 1873January 17 – American Indian Wars: Modoc War: First Battle of the Stronghold – Modoc Indians defeat the United States Army.source
  • 1876November 25 – American Indian Wars: Dull Knife Fight – In retaliation for the dramatic American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops under General Ranald S. Mackenzie sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River (Montana). The soldiers destroy all of the villagers' winter food and clothing, and then slash their ponies' throats.source
  • 1876November 25 – Indian Wars: In retaliation for the dramatic American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops under General Ranald S. Mackenzie sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River. The soldiers destroy all of the villagers' winter food and clothing, and then slash their ponies' throats.source
  • 1877May 5 – Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.source
  • 1877August 9 – American Indian Wars: Battle of the Big Hole – Near Big Hole River, Montana, a small band of Nez Perce people who refuse government orders to move to a reservation, clash with the United States Army. The army loses 29 soldiers, and the Indians lose 89 warriors, in an Army victory.source
  • 1878June 18 – Posse Comitatus Act signed into law to limit the powers of the federal government of the United States in using the United States Army to enforce domestic policy within the U.S.source
  • 1890November 29 – In West Point, New York, the United States Navy defeats the United States Army 24–0 in the first Army–Navy football game.source

20th century

  • 1914July 18 – The Signal Corps of the United States Army establishes an Aviation Section, giving definite status to its air service for the first time.source
  • 1917February 5 – The U.S. Army force under command of John J. Pershing reached Columbus, New Mexico, ending the Pancho Villa Expedition.source
  • 1919July 7 – The United States Army sends a convoy across the continental U.S., starting in Washington, D.C., to assess the possibility of crossing North America by road. This crossing takes many months to complete, because the building of the U.S. Highway System has not commenced.source
  • 1919September 6 – The First Transcontinental Motor Convoy: The U.S. Army expedition across America, which started July 7, ends in San Francisco.source
  • 1943May 17 – The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the computer ENIAC.source
  • 1945May 2 – Expatriate American poet Ezra Pound is arrested by the Italian resistance movement but soon released by them as of no interest; on May 5 he turns himself in to the United States Army and is imprisoned as a traitor.source
  • 1954April 22 – Senator Joseph McCarthy begins hearings investigating the United States Army for being "soft" on Communism.source
  • 1955July 9 – Lindsey Graham, American politician, lawyer, U.S. Army soldier, U.S. Senator (R-Sc.) and unsuccessful 2016 presidential candidate (died 2026)source
  • 1962March 16 – Flying Tiger Line Flight 739, a Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation chartered by the United States Military Air Transport Service, and carrying mainly United States Army personnel bound for South Vietnam, vanishes over the western Pacific Ocean, with the loss of all 107 on board (no wreckage or bodies are ever found).source
  • 1962July 25 – The first attack helicopter company, Utility Tactical Transport Helicopter Company, of the United States Army is formed on Okinawa Island, Japan.source
  • 1972November 11 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization – The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.source
  • 19997 April – President Spyros Kyprianou flew to Belgrade to help with the negotiations for the release of the three American soldiers detained by Serbia.source

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