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 (1810–1821)	Mexico Mexican Insurgents European Volunteers Mexican Ex-Royalists Army of the Three Guarantees United States	Spain Spanish Royalists Mexican Royalists	Victory First Mexican Empire gains independence from Spain Signing of the Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire
Long Expedition (1819)	First Mexican Empire Army of the Three Guarantees	Texan Filibusters	Victory Rebels defeated and captured James Long executed
Texas–Indian Wars (1820–1875)	First Mexican Empire  Spain  United States  Republic of Texas	Comanche	Victory Extinction of many tribes in Texas, including the Karankawan, Akokisa and Bidui
Spanish Attempts to Reconquer Mexico (1821–1829)	First Mexican Empire (1821–1822)  Mexico  United States	Spain	Victory Spain recognizes the independence of the United States of Mexico in 1829
Comanche–Mexico Wars (1821–1870)	First Mexican Empire (1821–1822)  Mexico  United States	Comanche Kiowa	Victory Many successful raids by Comanche Comanche gradually defeated in Mexico and the United States
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 Apache gradually defeated in Mexico and the United States
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 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 Aztec Empire Maya people Tarascans Chichimecans Puebloans Comanches Apaches Yaquis	Mexican, Guatemalan, Honduran and Salvadoran victory
Casa Mata Plan Revolution (1822-1823)	Republicans  United Kingdom  Gran Colombia United States	Imperialist  Spain	Republican Victory
Rebellion of Oaxaca (1823)	Provisional government	Oaxaca	Provisional Government Victory
Rebellion of Guadalajara (1823)	Provisional government	Jalisco	Victory of the provisional Government • Constitution of Colima as Territory of the Nation
Rebellion of Puebla (1823)	Provisional government	Mexican Independents	Victory of the provisional Government
Revolt of Querétaro (1823)	Provisional government	Mexican Independents	Victory of the provisional Government
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)	Conservatives	Liberals	Conservative Victory Anastasio Bustamante and Conservatives oust liberal president Vicente Guerrero in 1829 Capture and execution of Guerrero, defeat of Guerrero's forces
Rebellion in Zacatecas (1835)	Centralist	Zacatecan rebels	Centralist Victory Creation of Aguascalientes Territory separated from Zacatecas
Texas Revolution (1835–1836)	Mexico	Republic of Texas  United States (support)	Defeat Texan victory, Treaties of Velasco (1836) Creation of the Republic of Texas (1836) Mexican invasions of Texas (1842) Annexation of Texas by the United States of America (1845); Outbreak of the Mexican–American War (1846–1848)
First Franco–Mexican War (1838–1839) also known as the Pastry War	Mexico	France  United States	Defeat Mexican government accepts to pay the 600,000 pesos
Republic of the Rio Grande (1840)	Mexico	Republic of the Rio Grande	Mexican Victory Dissolution of the Republic of Rio Grande.
Mier expedition (1842-1843)	Mexico	Texas	Mexican Victory • Texan soldiers were forced to surrender
Mexican–American War (1846–1848)	Mexico	United States California Republic	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 Republic of 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	Mexican Victory Wiliam Walker trial in San Diego.
Revolution of Ayutla (1854–1855)	Liberals	Conservatives	Liberal Victory Juan Álvarez leads overthrow of Antonio López de Santa Anna Final defeat of Santa Anna and step toward the Reform
Reform War (1857–1861)	Liberals  United States	Conservatives	Liberal Victory Benito Juárez rises to power in Mexico
Cortina Troubles (1859–1861)	Mexico  United States  Confederate States	Cortinista militia	Victory Raids ended
Second Franco–Mexican War (1861–1867)	Mexico  United States	French Empire 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
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
Venezuelan Crisis of 1902–1903 (1902–1903)	United Kingdom  Germany  Italy  Spain  Mexico  Belgium  Netherlands  Denmark	Venezuela  Argentina  United States	Compromise Arbitration by Washington European powers ceasefire Blockade on Venezuela lifted Payment plan of Venezuelan debt to the European powers established Articulation of the Roosevelt Corollary
Mexican Revolution (1910–1920)	Counter-Revolutionaries  Mexico  United States (1910–1913)  Germany (1913–1917) Porfiristas Huertistas	Revolutionaries  United States (1913–1918)  United Kingdom (1916–1918)  Germany (1917) Constitutional Army Villistas Zapatistas	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 of 1911 (1911)	Mexico	Partido Liberal Mexicano	Mexican victory • Failure of the libertarian insurrection.
Cristero War (1926–1929)	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)	Mexican Government	Escobar Rebels	Govermant Victory Ecobar rebels defeated
Spanish Civil War (1937–1939)	Second Spanish Republic  Soviet Union Mexico  France Generalitat de Catalunya Volunteers	Nationalist Spain  Germany  Italy  United States Portugal Volunteers	Defeat End of the Second Spanish Republic Rise of the Francoist Spain Military dictatorship
World War II (1942–1945) Philippines campaign (1944–1945) Pacific war Battle of Luzon	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  Peru  Iraq  Bolivia  Colombia  Iran  Liberia  Ecuador  Paraguay  Uruguay  Venezuela  Turkey  Egypt  Syria  Lebanon  Saudi Arabia  Cambodia  Argentina  Chile  Mongolia	Germany  Japan  Italy  Hungary  Romania  Bulgaria  Finland  Thailand  Manchukuo  Mengjiang  Croatia  Slovakia  State of Burma	Victory Collapse of the Third Reich Fall of the Japanese Empire Fall of Fascist Italy Creation of the United Nations Emergence of the U.S.A. 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 meditation helps to prevent escalation
Nicaraguan Revolution (1962–1990)	FSLN  Soviet Union  Libya  Cuba  Bulgaria  Romania Czechoslovakia  Poland  Mexico  East Germany  Chile France Portugal Spain China Brazil Argentina Uruguay Paraguay Peru Bolivia Ecuador Venezuela Colombia Australia New Zealand Canada United Kingdom	Somoza Dynasty  United States	Victory: Regime change in Nicaragua Overthrow of the Somoza family dictatorship Rise to power of the National Opposition Union
Dirty War (1968–1982)	Mexico  United States Special "White Brigade" and other death squads	Left-wing groups: Party of the Poor Liga Comunista 23 de Septiembre EZLN EPR Various social and armed movements in the country	Victory Continued rule of the Institutional Revolutionary Party Most leftist guerrilla groups disbanded
Zapatista Uprising (1994)	Mexico  United States	EZLN	Victory Uprising crushed by the government San Andrés Accords, granting some autonomy to the indigenous peoples
Mexican Drug War (2006–present)	Mexico  United States  Colombia  Australia	Mexican Drug Cartels Other Latin American DTOs	Ongoing 24 of the original 34 Zetas captured or killed[1] 34 of the 37 most-wanted Mexican drug lords captured or killed World's most wanted drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán re-captured and extradited to the United States[2]

See also

• Mexico in World War I
• List of ongoing armed conflicts
• Timeline of Mexican War of Independence

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