List of foreign military attacks on United States territory
(Redirected from Attacks on US mainland)
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Incorporated
edit- American Revolutionary War, 1776–1780 (Perpetrator:
Great Britain) - War of 1812, 1812–1815 (Perpetrator:
United Kingdom, 
British Canada) - Thornton Affair, April 26, 1846 (Perpetrator:
Second Federal Republic of Mexico) - Mexican–American War, 1846–1848 (Perpetrator: Second Federal Republic of Mexico)
- Chesapeake Affair, December 7, 1863 (Perpetrator: British Canada)
- Black Tom explosion, July 30, 1916 (Perpetrator:
German Empire) - Battle of Columbus, 1916 (Perpetrator: Pancho Villa's División del Norte)
- Attack on Orleans, 1918 (Perpetrator: German Empire)
- Battle of Ambos Nogales, 1918 (Perpetrator: Improvised Mexican civilian volunteers)
- Attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 (Perpetrator:
Empire of Japan) - American Theater (World War II), 1941–1945 (Perpetrator: Empire of Japan,
Nazi Germany, 
Kingdom of Italy)
- Attack on Goleta, California, February 23, 1942 (Perpetrator: Empire of Japan)[1]
- Attack on Goleta, California, February 23, 1942 (Perpetrator:
- 1993 World Trade Center bombing, February 26, 1993 (Perpetrator:
Al-Qaeda) - September 11 attacks in New York City, New York; Arlington, Virginia; and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, September 11, 2001 (Perpetrator: Al-Qaeda)
Unincorporated
edit- Japanese invasion of the Philippines, 1941–1945
- Battle of Guam, 1941
- Battle of Wake, 1941
- Battle of Midway, 1942
- Japanese occupation of Attu, 1942
- Japanese invasion of Kiska, 1942