List of wars involving Mexico

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

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

  Mexican victory
  Mexican defeat
  Ceasefire or other result
  Ongoing conflict

List[]

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results
Mexican War of Independence
(1810–1821)
 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)
Mexico Mexico
Army of the Three Guarantees
Texan Filibusters Victory
  • Rebels defeated and captured
  • James Long shot and killed in custody
Texas–Indian Wars
(1820–1875)
Mexico Mexico
 Spain
 United States
 Texas
Choctaw Republic
Comanche and various Native American tribes Victory
  • Extinction of many tribes in Texas, including the Karankawa, Akokisa and Bidai
Spanish Attempts to Reconquer Mexico
(1821–1829)
Mexico Mexican Empire (1821–1822)
 Mexico
 Spain Victory
  • Spain recognizes the independence of the United States of Mexico in 1829
Comanche–Mexico Wars
(1821–1870)
Mexico Mexican Empire (1821–1822)
 Mexico
Comanche
Kiowa
Defeat
  • Many successful raids by Comanche
Apache–Mexico Wars
(1821–1915)
Part of the Mexican Indian Wars and the American Indian Wars
 Crown of Castile (1600s–1716)

 Spain (1600s–1821)


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


 United States


 Confederate States (1861–1865)

Apache Victory
  • Apache gradually defeated in Mexico and the United States
Yaqui Wars
(1821–1929)
Part of the Mexican Indian Wars
 Spain (1533–1821)

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


 United States (1896–1918)

Yaqui Victory
  • Yaqui revolts put down
Mexican Indian Wars
(1821–1933)
 Crown of Castile
(1519–1716)
Tlaxcalans and other Native Indian allies of Spain (1519–1821)
 Spain (1716–1823)
 Mexico
(1821–1933)
 Guatemala (1823–1933)
 Honduras (1823–1933)
 El Salvador (1823–1933)

 England (1638–1707)
 United Kingdom (1707–1862)
 British Honduras (1862–1933)


 Republic of Texas (1836–1846)
California Republic (1846)
 United States (1850–1933)
 Confederate States (1861–1865)

Various Native Mexicans

Victory
Casa Mata Plan Revolution
(1822–1823)
Mexico Republicans
 United Kingdom
 Gran Colombia
Mexico Imperialists
 Spain
Republican Victory
Rebellion of Oaxaca
(1823)
Mexico Mexican Provisional Government Oaxaca Oaxaca Provisional Government Victory
Rebellion of Guadalajara
(1823)
Mexico Mexican Provisional Government Jalisco Jalisco Provisional Government Victory
  • Constitution of Colima as Territory of the Nation
Rebellion of Puebla
(1823)
Mexico Mexican Provisional Government Puebla Puebla Provisional Government Victory
Revolt of Querétaro
(1823)
Mexico Mexican Provisional Government Querétaro Querétaro Provisional Government Victory
Fredonian Rebellion
(1826–1827)
 Mexico
Comanche tribes (peace treaty)
Texan Rebels
Comanche tribes (initial plotting support)
Victory
  • Edwards Rebels defeated
  • Comanches convinced to back down and peace treaty established
  • Mexican amnesty for rebels except the Edwards brothers, Martin Parmer, and Adolphus Sterne
  • A larger Mexican garrison established in Nacogdoches
  • Law restricting immigration into Texas
  • The Edwards flee to the United States (returning later for the Texas Revolution)
Conservative Coup
(1829–1831)
Mexico Conservatives Mexico Liberals Conservative Victory
  • Anastasio Bustamante and Conservatives oust liberal president Vicente Guerrero in 1829
  • Capture and execution of Guerrero, defeat of Guerrero's forces
Zacatecas Rebellion
(1835)
Mexico Centralists Zacatecan Rebels Centralist Victory
Texas Revolution
(1835–1836)
 Mexico  Texas Defeat
First Franco–Mexican War
(1838–1839)
also known as the Pastry War
 Mexico  France
 United Kingdom
Defeat
  • Mexican government accepts to pay the 600,000 pesos
Rebellion of the Republic of the Rio Grande
(1840)
 Mexico Republic of the Rio Grande Victory
  • Dissolution of the Republic of Rio Grande
Mier Expedition
(1842–1843)
 Mexico  Texas Victory
  • Texan soldiers were forced to surrender
Mexican–American War
(1846–1848)
 Mexico  United States
California California
 Texas
Defeat
  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
  • United States took ownership of California and a large area comprising roughly half of New Mexico, most of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado
  • Mexican recognition of Texas (and the Mexican Cession) as U.S. territory; End of conflict between Mexico and Texas
Caste War of Yucatán
(1847–1901)
 Mexico
Yucatán
Guatemala
 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
Expedition of William Walker to Baja California and Sonora
(1853)
 Mexico Republic of Sonora
Republic of Baja California
Victory
  • Wiliam Walker trial in San Diego
Revolution of Ayutla
(1854–1855)
Mexico Liberals Mexico Conservatives Liberal Victory
Reform War
(1857–1861)
Mexico Liberals
Mexico Conservatives Liberal Victory
Cortina Troubles
(1859–1861)
 Mexico
 United States
 Confederate States
Mexico Cortinista Militia Victory
  • Raids ended
Second Franco–Mexican War
(1861–1867)
 Mexico
France French Empire
Mexico Mexican Empire
 Austrian Empire
 Belgium
 Spain
 United Kingdom
Egypt Eyalet
Polish Revolutionaries
Victory
  • Establishment, then fall, of the Second Mexican Empire
  • French withdrawal
  • Execution of Emperor Maximilian I, Miguel Miramon, and Tomas Mejia
Victorio's War
(1879–1881)
 United States
 Mexico
Apache Victory
  • Apache defeated
Barrios' War of Reunification
(1885)
 El Salvador
 Mexico
 Costa Rica
 Nicaragua
 Guatemala
 Honduras
Victory
  • Death of Justo Rufino Barrios
Garza Revolution
(1891–1893)
 Mexico
 United States
Garzistas Victory
  • Garza Revolution defeated
Mexican annexation of Clipperton Island
(1897)
 Mexico  France Victory
  • Mexican annexation, colony established
Second Totoposte War
(1903)
 El Salvador
 Mexico
Guatemala Guatemalan Exiles
 Guatemala Stalemate
Third Totoposte War
(1906)
 El Salvador
 Mexico
Guatemala Guatemalan Exiles
 Guatemala Stalemate
Mexican Revolution
(1910–1920)
Mexico Counter-Revolutionaries

 Mexico


 United States (1910–1913)


 Germany (1913–1917)


Mexico Revolutionaries

 United States (1913–1918)


 United Kingdom (1916–1918)


 Germany (1917)


Revolutionary Victory
  • Porfirio Díaz and Victoriano Huerta ousted from power and exiled
  • Mexican Constitution of 1917 enacted
  • Defeat of rebellious Villa and Zapata by their Constitutionalists pairs
  • Political assassination of presidents and revolutionary leaders
  • Founding of the National Revolutionary Party
Border War
(1910–1919)
 Mexico
 Germany
 United States Defeat
  • Seditionist insurgency suppressed
  • Permanent border wall established
Magonista Rebellion
(1911)
 Mexico Liberal Party of Mexico Victory
  • Failure of the libertarian insurrection
Cristero War
(1926–1929)
Mexico Mexican Government Cristeros
National League for the Defense of Religious Liberty
Knights of Columbus
Government Ceasefire
  • The Mexican Government makes peace agreement with Cristeros, assisted by the United States through U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, Dwight Whitney Morrow, in order to end violence
  • Recognition of certain rights and the Catholic Church reopens in Mexico by 1929 during the presidency of Emilio Portes Gil, although some anti-clerical government laws remained in place until 1992, when the Mexican government amended the constitution by granting all religious groups legal status, conceding them limited property rights and lifting restrictions on the number of priests in the country
Escobar Rebellion
(1929)
Mexico Mexican Government Escobar Rebels Government Victory
  • Ecobar rebels defeated
World War II
(1942–1945)
 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
 Chile
 Bolivia
 Colombia
 Ecuador
 Paraguay
 Peru
 Venezuela
 Uruguay
 Argentina
 Germany
 Japan
 Italy
 Hungary
 Romania
 Bulgaria
 Croatia
 Slovakia
 Finland
 Thailand
 Manchukuo
 Mengjiang
Victory
  • Collapse of the Third Reich
  • Fall of Japanese and Italian Empires
  • Creation of the United Nations
  • Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers
  • Beginning of the Cold War
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 mediation helps to prevent escalation
Dirty War
(1968–1982)
 Mexico Left-wing groups: Victory
  • Continued rule of the Institutional Revolutionary Party
  • Most leftist guerrilla groups disbanded
Zapatista Uprising
(1994)
 Mexico EZLN Victory
  • Uprising crushed by the government
  • San Andrés Accords, granting some autonomy to the indigenous peoples
Mexican Drug War
(2006–present)
 Mexico Mexican Drug Cartels
Other Latin American DTOs
Ongoing

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Botelho, Greg; Martinez, Michael (January 9, 2016). "'Mission accomplished': Mexican President says 'El Chapo' caught". CNN.
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