Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1888 — American Wars. [ARTICLE]

American Wars.

Since Columbus firfet discovered this country. 396 year ago, sixteen wars have raged in what are now the United States or been waged by this government. They were the Dutch war of 1655, King Phillip’s war of 1675, King William’s war of 1689, Queen’s Anne’S war of 1713, the French and Indian war, 1757;,the Revolution, 1775; the Indian war, 1790; the Barbary war, 1803; the •Tecumseh war, 1811; the war of 1812; the war on the Algerian pirates in 1815, the first Seminole war in 1817, the second Seminole war in 1835, the Black Hawk war of 1833, the Mexican war, of 1846, and the Rebellion, 1861. The duration and cost of the four great-wars were: Revolutionary, seven years, $135,103,701; 1812, two and a half years, $107,159,001; Mexican, two years, $66,009,000, and the rebellion, four years, over $3,000,000,00. or a total cost of nearly three and a half billion. In the' revolutionary war the number of American troops engaged Was 231,791, in the rebellion the northern soldiers numbered 2,688,523. . There have also been so-called rebellions or attempts to overthrow the "government, .^e^firatoW.as when some officers of the federal army tried to consolidate’the thirteen states into one and confer supreme power on Washington. The second was in 1787, called “Shay’s Insurrection,”' ih Massachusetts. The third was in 1794, popuariy called “The Whisky Insurrections of,Pennsyl vania.” The fourth instance was in 1814. by the Hartford Convention Federalists. The fifth, on which occasion the different sections of the ' union came into collision, was in 1820, under the administration of President Monroe, and occurred on the question of the admission of Missouri into the union. The sixth was a collision between the Legislature of Georgia and the Federal Government in regard to certain lands given by the latter to the Creek Indians. The seventh was in 1820 with the Cherokees in Georgia. The eighth was the memorable nullifying ordinance of South Carolina in 1832. The ninth was in 1842, and occurred in Rhode Island between the Suffrage Association and the state authorites. The tenth was in‘lßs6, on the part of the Mormons, who resisted the federal authority. The eleventh w“as the southern rebellion. _