Conflicts

Alaska

76 engagements recorded

Ipiutak Conflict Point Hope Alaska

Punuk Period Warfare St. Lawrence Island

Birnik Culture Warfare North Slope Alaska

Yupik-Athapaskan Border Raids

Thule-Dorset Conflict Alaska

Utqiagvik (Barrow) Conflict Evidence

Norton Sound Conflict – Bering Sea Coast

Thule Expansion – Kotzebue Sound

Thule Expansion Dorset Conflict

Northwest Coast Slave Raiding Alaska

Kodiak Island Alutiiq Conflicts

Aleut Warfare – Aleutian Islands Conflict

Bristol Bay Warfare – Naknek Area

Thule-Dorset Conflict – Point Barrow

Pacific Eskimo Warfare – Prince William Sound

Yukon River Athabaskan Conflict

Tlingit Warfare — Ketchikan Area

Aleut-Koniag Warfare – Kodiak Island

Aleut-Koniag Warfare — Kodiak Island

Alaska Peninsula Warfare Sites

Tlingit-Eyak Conflict – Copper River Delta

Haida Expansion Raids – Southeast Alaska

Tlingit Expansion – Lynn Canal Conflict

Haida Slave Raiding

Pérez Hernández Alaska Coastal Contact 1774

Battle of Sitka (Old Sitka)

Tlingit Destruction of Fort St. Michael (Redoubt St. Michael)

Battle of Sitka (Second Battle / Katlian's War)

Tlingit Destruction of Fort Resurrection

Tlingit-Russian Conflicts at Novo-Arkhangelsk 1810s–1840s

Bombardment of Nulato 1851

Haida Raids on Alaska Coast

CSS Shenandoah Attacks Pacific Whaling Fleet

Sitka Tlingit Standoff 1867–1870

Attack on Fort Tongas

Fort Wrangell Tlingit Skirmish (1868)

Fort Wrangell Tlingit Incident

Kake War — Wrangell Incident (1869)

Wrangell Tlingit Confrontation with US Troops

Bombardment of Wrangell

Kake Tlingit Conflict 1869

Kake War — Navy Bombardment of Kake Village (February 1869)

Snettisham Inlet Action 1869

Bombardment of Kake Village

Kake War – US Navy Bombardment of Kake Village

Kake War 1869 — US Navy Attack on Kake

Bombardment of Kake (Alaska 1869)

Wrangell Tlingit Conflict 1877

Sitka Tlingit Confrontation 1879

Wrangell Tlingit — USS Jamestown 1879

Chilkat Campaign 1881

Angoon Bombardment (October 26, 1882)

Angoon Second Action 1882

Bombardment of Angoon 1882

Battle of Kootznoowoo (Angoon)

Battle of Dutch Harbor

Japanese Occupation of Kiska

Japanese Occupation of Attu Island (1942)

Dutch Harbor Attack (Alaska)

Battle of Komandorski Islands (Aleutians)

Battle of Attu – Massacre Bay Landing

Battle of Attu Island

Battle of Kiska — Unopposed Landing

Battle of Attu – Chichagof Harbor

Battle of Attu — Chicagof Harbor

Battle of the Komandorski Islands

Battle of Kiska

Battle of Attu – Fish Hook Ridge

Battle of Attu – Engineer Hill

Aleutian Islands — Kiska

Battle of Attu — Engineer Hill (Last Stand)

Battle of Attu — Engineer Hill

Aleutian Islands Campaign — Attu

Battle of Attu (Aleutian Islands)

Kiska Occupation – Unopposed Landing

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