The Boston Tea Parties — there were two — involved committing acts of economic vandalism on British merchant ships.
The War of 1812 was sparked by maritime trade disputes and American sailors being “impressed” into sea-going slavery.
The 1898 Spanish American War started when Spain blew up the U.S. battleship Maine. Or maybe a boiler, fuel or munitions exploded by accident. Some claim it was a false flag operation. Whatever the cause, an imperialistic land grab on two hemispheres ensued.
Seventeen years later, a German U-boat sank the ocean liner Lusitania, with 128 Americans on board, along with U.