List of wars involving Bolivia

This is a list of wars and armed conflicts fought by independent Bolivia from 1809 to 1970.

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Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results
Bolivian War of Independence
(1809-1825)		 Republiquetas
United Provinces		  Spain Victory
  • Independence of Bolivia from Spanish rule.
Salaverry-Santa Cruz War
(1835-1836)		  Peru-Bolivia Confederacy  Peru Victory
  • Foundation of the confederation.
War of the Confederation
(1836-1839)		  Peru-Bolivia Confederacy  Chile
 Peru
 Argentina		 Defeat
  • Dissolution of the confederation.
Peruvian-Bolivian War of 1841-1842
(1841-1842)		  Bolivia  Peru Indecisive, both sides claimed victory
  • Signature of the Treaty of Puno
  • Withdrawal of the Peruvian troops from the Bolivian territory. Bolivian withdrawal from southern Peru[1].
Chincha Islands War
(1865-1866)		  Chile
 Peru

Nominal participation:
 Ecuador
 Bolivia

 Spain Indecisive, both sides claimed victory
  • Spanish withdrawal from the Chincha Islands.
  • The state of war is maintained between the belligerent parties until the signing of an indefinite armistice in 1871.
  • Subsequently, Spain and the South American allies signed peace treaties separately: Peru (1879), Bolivia (1879), Chile (1883) and Ecuador (1885).
War of the Pacific
(1879-1883)		  Peru
 Bolivia		  Chile Defeat
Chiriguano War
(1892)		  Bolivia Chiriguano Victory
  • Subjugation of the chiriguano people.
Acre War
(1899–1903)		  Bolivia Brazil
 Acre		 Defeat
  • Capitulation of Bolivian troops in Acre.[2]
Forgotten campaign of the Manuripi region
(1910)		  Bolivia  Peru Defeat[3]
  • Recognition of most of the territory in dispute as belonging to Peru[4]. Delivery of the Purus to the Peruvian territory[5]. Recognition of Madre de Dios and Acre territories as Bolivians[6]. Compliance with previous diplomatic agreements and final establishment of limits. Death of the bolivian captain Lino Echevarria.
Chaco War
(1932-1935)		  Bolivia

Supported by:

England [7]

  Paraguay

Supported by:
 United States[8]

 Defeat
  • Most of the disputed area awarded to Paraguay. Paraguay was awarded the sovereignty of 75% of the disputed area, and Bolivia was given the rest.[9]
Ñancahuazú Guerrilla
(1966–1967)		  Bolivia
United States		 ELN
 Cuba		 Victory
Teoponte Guerrilla
(1970)		  Bolivia ELN
 Cuba
Socialist Party of Chile[10]		 Victory
  • Guerilla defeated. Disarticulation of the guerilla

References
  1. "LA GUERRA ENTRE PERÚ Y BOLIVIA DE 1841 Y 1842". Chilean Society of History and Geography.
  2. "A war for the Acre region pits Bolivia and Brazil". Efemerides.
  3. "Bolivia has lost more than 1 million km2 and with whom it has lost the most is with Brazil and Argentina". Infogate, Chile.
  4. "Bolivia lost more than half of its territory". Newspaper the Homeland.
  5. "The territory of the Bolivian coast". Chilean Navy Magazine.
  6. {{Cita web|http://repositorio.up.edu.pe/bitstream/handle/11354/959/DD1403.pdf?sequence=1%7Ctítulo=Las tendencias de largo plazo de la desigualdad regional en el Perú, 1827-2007.
  7. Press, Europa (2017-05-10). "La Guerra del Chaco, el conflicto armado más importante del siglo XX en Iberoamérica". www.notimerica.com. Retrieved 2019-04-04.
  8. Mora, Frank o. and Cooney, Jerry Wilson (2007) Paraguay and the United States: Distant Allies. University of Georgia Press, p. 84. ISBN 0820324671
  9. "La victoria del Paraguay a Bolivia, en paz al fin". BBC Lóndres.
  10. "Chilenos en la guerrilla boliviana" (PDF).


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