Military history of African Americans is that of African Americans in the Unite States since the arrival of the first black slaves in what is now the United States in 1619 to the present day. There is no war fought by the United States in which African Americans did not participate. African American military history is marked by participation in all of the major conflicts in American History, including the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Civil War, the Spanish American War, the World Wars, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, and the current War in Iraq, as well as other minor conflicts.