Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cikin Yakin Amurka da Amurka, sojojin Amurka a karkashin Winfield Scott sun kaddamar da babban harin amphibious na farko a tarihin Amurka a cikin 1847 Siege na Veracruz. A lokacin Yakin Crimea na 1853-1856 ƙungiyar adawa da Rasha ta ƙaddamar da aikin amphibious na Anglo-Faransa a kan Rasha a Bomarsund, Finland a ranar 8 ga Agusta 1854. A lokacin yakin basasar Amurka na 1861-1865 Amurka ta yi hare-hare da dama a bakin tekun Amurka. Ayyuka a Hatteras Inlet
(Agusta 1861) da kuma a Port Royal, South Carolina sune na farko na hare-haren da yawa, wasu sun faru a tsibirin Roanoke, NC; Galveston, TX; Fort Sumter, Morris Island da James Island, SC; da kuma wasu da yawa. Babban irin wannan rikici ya faru a watan Janairu 1865 a Fort Fisher - mafi girma da kuma karfi a duniya a lokacin - wanda ya kare ƙofar Wilmington, North Carolina. Sojojin da suka kai harin sun ƙunshi mutane fiye da 15,000 da kuma jiragen ruwa 70 da ke ɗauke da bindigogi fiye da 600.