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List of wars involving Nicaragua

This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Nicaragua.

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results Head of State
Nicaraguan Independence Movements
(1811–1812)
Nicaraguan revolutionaries Spanish Empire Defeat
  • Revolts suppressed
José de Salvador y Antoli
Civil war of 1824
(1824)
Fiebres Timbucos Fiebres victory José Anacleto Ordóñez
Cerda-Argüello War
(1827–1828)
Liberal Federalists Conservative Federalists Liberal victory Juan Argüello del Castillo
Flores' Rebellion
(1834)
Nicaraguan Government Anti-Constitutionalist Rebels Government victory
  • Cándido Flores is defeated in Managua and later flees Granada
José Núñez

Invasion of Guanacaste
(1836)

Nicaragua
Costa Ricans exiled

Costa Rica

Defeat

  • Withdrawal of Nicaraguan forces
Manuel Quijano
Malespín's War
(1844–1845)
Nicaragua El Salvador
Honduras
Defeat Emiliano Madriz
Blas Antonio Sáenz
Silvestre Selva
Recapture of San Juan del Norte
(1848)
Nicaragua United Kingdom
Kingdom of Mosquitia
Defeat José María Guerrero
Granada-León Civil War
(1853–1855)
Legitimists Democrats Stalemate Fruto Chamorro
Francisco Castellón
Filibuster War
(1855–1857)
Nicaragua

Costa Rica
Guatemala
Honduras
El Salvador
United States

Filibusters
Nicaragua Democrats
Legitimist victory Fruto Chamorro
William Walker
Barrios' War of Reunification
(1885)
El Salvador
Mexico
Costa Rica
Nicaragua
Guatemala
Honduras
Victory Adán Cárdenas
Nicaragua Crisis of 1895
(1894–1895)
Nicaragua United Kingdom Victory José Santos Zelaya
Honduran Civil War
(1906–1907)
Liberal Rebels
Nicaragua
Honduras
El Salvador
Victory
  • Dávila becomes President of Honduras
Estrada's Rebellion
(1909–1910)
Nicaragua Liberal Government Nicaragua Conservative Rebels
United States
Regime change
  • Estrada recognized as President of Nicaragua
Mena's Rebellion
(1912)
Nicaragua Conservative Government
United States
Nicaragua Liberal Rebels Government victory
  • Liberal rebels exiled to Panama
Adolfo Díaz
World War I
(1918)
 France
United Kingdom
Russia
United States
 Italy
 Japan
China
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
 India
 South Africa
 Serbia
 Montenegro
 Romania
 Belgium
 Greece
 Portugal
 Brazil
 Cuba
 Panama
 Guatemala
 Nicaragua
 Costa Rica
 Honduras
 Germany
 Austria-Hungary
 Ottoman Empire
 Bulgaria
Victory Emiliano Chamorro Vargas
Constitutionalist War
(1926–1927)
Nicaragua Conservative Government
United States
Nicaragua Liberal Rebels Government victory
Sandinistas War
(1927–1933)
Nicaragua Conservative Government
United States
Nicaragua Sandinistas Government victory
  • Sandinistas surrender their weapons
Adolfo Díaz
World War II
(1941–1945)
United States
Soviet Union
United Kingdom
China
France
Poland
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
 India
 South Africa
 Yugoslavia
 Greece
Denmark
Norway
Netherlands
Belgium
Luxembourg
 Czechoslovakia
Brazil
Mexico
Panama
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Nicaragua
Dominican Republic
Cuba
 Germany
 Japan
 Italy
 Hungary
 Romania
 Bulgaria
Croatia
Slovakia
 Finland
 Thailand
 Manchukuo
 Mengjiang
Victory Anastasio Somoza García
Costa Rican Civil War
(1948)
Costa Rica
Calderón Forces
People's Vanguard Party
Nicaragua
National Liberation Movement
Ulatistas
Defeat Víctor Manuel Román
Invasion of Costa Rica
(1955)
Calderón Forces
Nicaragua
Costa Rica Defeat
  • Nicaraguan withdrawal from Costa Rica
Anastasio Somoza García
Dominican Civil War
(1965–1966)
Dominican Loyalists
United States
Brazil
Paraguay
Honduras
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Dominican Constitutionalists Victory René Schick
Nicaraguan Revolution
(1961–1990)
Nicaragua Somoza Government
Nicaragua Contras (1979–1990)
FSLN

MAP–ML (1978–1979)

Regime change
  • Overthrow of Somoza government
Anastasio Somoza Debayle
Daniel Ortega
Miskito Conflict
(1982–1987)
Nicaragua Miskito Guerrillas Victory
  • Guerillas defeated
Daniel Ortega
Operation Golden Pheasant
(1988)
Nicaragua United States
Honduras
Defeat
  • Withdrawal of Nicaraguan forces from Honduran territory
Iraq War
(2003–2004)
Iraq
Iraqi Kurdistan
MNF–I
Iraq SCJL
Iraq Naqshbandi Army
ISI
al-Qaeda
Iraq FIA
Ansar al-Islam
IAI
Mahdi Army
Special Groups
Badr Brigades
Kata'ib Hezbollah
Victory Enrique Bolaños
Isla Calero Conflict

(2010)

Nicaragua Costa Rica Defeat Daniel Ortega