List of wars involving Mexico

This is a list of wars involving the United Mexican States.

Mexico has been involved in numerous different military conflicts over the years, with most being civil/internal wars.

List

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results
Mexican War of Independence
(18101821)
 Mexico
Mexico Mexican Insurgents
European Volunteers
Mexico Mexican Ex-Royalists
Army of the Three Guarantees
 Spain
Spain Spanish Royalists
Mexico Mexican Royalists
Victory
Long Expedition
(1819)
First Mexican Empire
Army of the Three Guarantees
United States U.S. Filibusters Victory
  • Rebels defeated and captured
Texas-Indian Wars
(1820-1875)
First Mexican Empire
 Spain
 United States
 Texas
Comanche Victory
  • Extinction of many tribes in Texas, including the Karankawan, Akokisa and Bidui
Spanish Reconquest Attempts of Mexico
(1821–1829)
First Mexican Empire (1821–1822)
 Mexico
 Spain Victory
Comanche–Mexico Wars
(18211870)
First Mexican Empire (1821–1822)
 Mexico
Comanche
Kiowa
Victory
  • Comanche revolts put down
Apache–Mexico Wars
(18211915)
Part of the Mexican Indian Wars and the American Indian Wars

 Crown of Castile (1600s–1716)


 Spain (1600s–1821)


First Mexican Empire (1821–1822)
 Mexico (after 1822)


 United States


 Confederate States (1861–1865)

Apache Victory
  • Apache revolts put down
Costa Rican Civil War of 1823
(1823)
First Mexican Empire Republicans Defeat
  • Independence of Costa Rica
Fredonian Rebellion
(1826–1827)
 Mexico Texan Rebels Victory
Yaqui Wars
(18211929)
Part of the Mexican Indian Wars
 Spain (1533–1821)

First Mexican Empire (1821–1822)
 Mexico (after 1822)


 United States (1896–1918)

Yaqui Victory
  • Yaqui revolts put down
War of the South
(18291831)
Mexico Conservatives Mexico Liberals Conservative Victory
Texas Revolution
(18351836)
 Mexico  Texas Defeat
First Franco–Mexican War
(18381839)
also known as the Pastry War
 Mexico
 United Kingdom
 Canada
 France
 United States
 Texas
Defeat
  • Mexican government accepts to pay the 600,000 pesos
Mexican–American War
(18461848)
 Mexico  United States
California California
Defeat
Caste War of Yucatán
(18471901)
 Mexico
Yucatán
 United Kingdom
 British Honduras
Maya Victory
  • Republic of Yucatán rejoins the United Mexican States in 1848
  • Mayas achieve an independent state from 1847–1883
  • Mexico recaptures Yucatán
  • Conflict between the Mexicans and the Mayans continued until 1933
Revolution of Ayutla
(18541855)
Mexico Liberals Mexico Conservatives Liberal Victory
Reform War
(18571861)
Mexico Liberals
 United States
Mexico Conservatives Liberal Victory
Cortina Troubles
(18591861)
 Mexico
 United States
 Confederate States
Mexico Cortinista militia Victory
  • Raids ended
Second Franco–Mexican War
(18611867)
 Mexico
 United States
 Peru
France French Empire
Mexico Mexican Empire
 Austrian Empire
 Belgium
 Spain
 United Kingdom
Egypt Eyalet
Polish Revolutionaries
Victory
Las Cuevas War
(1875)
 Mexico Texas Texas Ranger Division Defeat
  • Cattle returned to Texas
Victorio's War
(18791881)
 United States
 Mexico
Apache Victory
  • Apache defeated
Garza Revolution
(18911893)
 Mexico
 United States
Garzistas Victory
  • Garza Revolution defeated
Venezuelan crisis of 1902–1903
(19021903)
 United Kingdom
 Germany
 Italy
 Spain
 Mexico
 Belgium
 Netherlands
 Denmark
 Venezuela
 Argentina
 United States
Compromise
  • Venezuelan debt dispute resolved

mexican invasion of Clipperton Island
(1897)

 Mexico

 France

Victory

  • Mexican annexation, colony established
Mexican Revolution
(19101920)
Mexico Counter-Revolutionaries

 United States (1910–1913)


 Mexico


 Germany(1913–1918)


Mexico Revolutionaries

 United States (1913–1918)


 United Kingdom (1916–1918)


Constitutional Army Victory
Border War
(19101919)
 Mexico
 Germany
 United States Defeat
  • Seditionist insurgency suppressed
  • Permanent border wall established
  • Mexican Constitutionalists recognised by the United States as the sole leaders of the Mexican government
Cristero War
(19261929)
Mexico Mexican Government
United States United States
Ku Klux Klan
Cristeros
National League for the Defense of Religious Liberty
Knights of Columbus
Government Ceasefire
Spanish Civil War
(19371939)
Second Spanish Republic Second Spanish Republic
 Soviet Union
Mexico Mexico
 France
Catalonia Generalitat de Catalunya
Basque Country (autonomous community) Euzko Gudarostea
Comintern
Spain Nationalist Spain
 Germany
 Italy
Portugal Portugal
Volunteers
Defeat
World War II
(19421945)
 Soviet Union
 United States
 United Kingdom
 China
 France
 Poland
 Canada
 Australia
 New Zealand
 India
 South Africa
 Yugoslavia
 Greece
 Denmark
 Norway
 Netherlands
 Belgium
 Luxembourg
 Czechoslovakia
 Brazil
 Mexico
 Ethiopia
   Nepal
 Philippines
 Costa Rica
 Dominican Republic
 El Salvador
 Haiti
 Honduras
 Nicaragua
 Cuba
 Guatemala
 Vietnam
 Korea
 Peru
 Iraq
 Bolivia
 Colombia
 Iran
 Liberia
 Ecuador
 Paraguay
 Uruguay
 Venezuela
 Turkey
 Egypt
 Syria
 Lebanon
 Saudi Arabia
 Argentina
 Chile
 Mongolia
 Germany
Japan
 Italy
 Hungary
 Romania
 Bulgaria
 Finland
 Thailand
 Manchukuo
 Mengjiang
 Croatia
 Slovakia
 State of Burma
Victory
Philippines Campaign (1944–1945)
(19441945)
 United States
Philippines Commonwealth of the Philippines
 Australia
 Mexico
Hukbalahap
Japan
Philippines Second Philippine Republic
Victory
  • Second Philippine Republic deposed
  • Liberation of the Philippines from Japan
  • Restoration of the Commonwealth
  • Later, the establishment of the Third Philippine Republic (1946)
Mexico–Guatemala Conflict
(19581959)
 Mexico  Guatemala Ceasefire
  • Mexican retaliation halted by newly elected president Adolfo López Mateos
  • Diplomatic relations between the two nations are frozen for several months
  • South American meditation helps to prevent escalation
Nicaraguan Revolution
(19621990)
FSLN
 Soviet Union
 Libya
 Cuba
 Bulgaria
 Greece
 Romania
Czech Republic Czechoslovakia
 Poland
 Mexico
 East Germany
 Chile(until 1973)
Nicaragua Somoza Dynasty
 United States
 Israel
 Saudi Arabia
 Honduras
 Chile(since 1973)
 Brazil
 Paraguay
 Argentina
 Panama
Germany West Germany
 Pakistan
 Philippines
 Iran (inderectly)
Regime change
  • Overthrow of Somoza government
Dirty War
(19682000)
 Mexico
 United States
Special "White Brigade" and other death squads
Left-wing groups: Victory
Zapatista Uprising
(1994)
 Mexico EZLN Victory
Mexican Drug War
(2006present)
 Mexico
 United States
 Colombia
Mexican Drug Cartels
Other Latin American DTOs
Ongoing

See also

References

  1. "El Universal - - Diez ms, prfugos: indagatorias". 23 June 2013. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
  2. http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/08/americas/el-chapo-captured-mexico/index.html
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