Conflict |
Combatant 1 |
Combatant 2 |
Results |
Mexican War of Independence (1810–1821) |
Mexico Mexican Insurgents European Volunteers Mexican Ex-Royalists Army of the Three Guarantees |
Spain Spanish Royalists Mexican Royalists |
Victory
|
Long Expedition (1819) |
First Mexican Empire Army of the Three Guarantees |
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 (1821–1870) |
First Mexican Empire (1821–1822) Mexico |
Comanche Kiowa |
Victory
- Comanche revolts put down
|
Apache–Mexico Wars (1821–1915) 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
|
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 (1821–1929) Part of the Mexican Indian Wars |
Spain (1533–1821)
First Mexican Empire (1821–1822) Mexico (after 1822)
United States (1896–1918) |
Yaqui |
Victory
|
War of the South (1829–1831) |
Conservatives |
Liberals |
Conservative Victory
|
Texas Revolution (1835–1836) |
Mexico |
Texas |
Defeat
|
First Franco–Mexican War (1838–1839) 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 (1846–1848) |
Mexico |
United States California |
Defeat
|
Caste War of Yucatán (1847–1901) |
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 (1854–1855) |
Liberals |
Conservatives |
Liberal Victory
|
Reform War (1857–1861) |
Liberals United States |
Conservatives |
Liberal Victory
|
Cortina Troubles (1859–1861) |
Mexico United States Confederate States |
Cortinista militia |
Victory
|
Second Franco–Mexican War (1861–1867) |
Mexico United States Peru |
French Empire Mexican Empire Austrian Empire Belgium Spain United Kingdom Egypt Eyalet Polish Revolutionaries |
Victory
|
Las Cuevas War (1875) |
Mexico |
Texas Ranger Division |
Defeat
|
Victorio's War (1879–1881) |
United States Mexico |
Apache |
Victory
|
Garza Revolution (1891–1893) |
Mexico United States |
Garzistas |
Victory
- Garza Revolution defeated
|
Venezuelan crisis of 1902–1903 (1902–1903) |
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 (1910–1920) |
Counter-Revolutionaries
United States (1910–1913)
Mexico
Germany(1913–1918)
|
Revolutionaries
United States (1913–1918)
United Kingdom (1916–1918)
|
Constitutional Army Victory
|
Border War (1910–1919) |
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 (1926–1929) |
Mexican Government United States Ku Klux Klan |
Cristeros National League for the Defense of Religious Liberty Knights of Columbus |
Government Ceasefire
|
Spanish Civil War (1937–1939) |
Second Spanish Republic Soviet Union Mexico France Generalitat de Catalunya Euzko Gudarostea Comintern |
Nationalist Spain Germany Italy Portugal Volunteers |
Defeat
|
World War II (1942–1945) |
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) (1944–1945) |
United States Commonwealth of the Philippines Australia Mexico Hukbalahap |
Japan 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 (1958–1959) |
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 (1962–1990) |
FSLN Soviet Union Libya Cuba Bulgaria Greece Romania Czechoslovakia Poland Mexico East Germany Chile(until 1973) |
Somoza Dynasty United States Israel Saudi Arabia Honduras Chile(since 1973) Brazil Paraguay Argentina Panama West Germany Pakistan Philippines Iran (inderectly) |
Regime change
- Overthrow of Somoza government
|
Dirty War (1968–2000) |
Mexico United States Special "White Brigade" and other death squads |
Left-wing groups:
|
Victory
|
Zapatista Uprising (1994) |
Mexico |
EZLN |
Victory
|
Mexican Drug War (2006–present) |
Mexico United States Colombia |
Mexican Drug Cartels Other Latin American DTOs |
Ongoing
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