List of wars involving Peru

This article is a list of military conflicts in which Peru played an important role spanning from 1532 to the present.

Conflicts before Republican Era

• Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire (1532 – 1572)
• Juan Santos Atahualpa's rebellion (1742 - 1757)
• Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II (1780s)
• Peruvian War of Independence (1811 - 1824)

Republican Era

Conflict	Peru and Peruvian Allies	War against	Results	Head of State of Peru
Peruvian intervention in Bolivia of 1828	Republic of Peru	Republic of Colombia Bolivia	Peruvian Victory Treaty of Piquiza. Withdrawal of troops from the Gran Colombia of Bolivia. Term of Bolivarian influence in Bolivia.	Jose de la Mar Agustín Gamarra
Gran Colombia–Peru War (1828 - 1829)	Republic of Peru	Republic of Colombia Bolivia	Peruvian Victory Signing of the Larrea-Gual Treaty. Naval victory of Peru. Land campaign unfinished and without decisive results. Dissolution of the Great Colombia. Peru recognized the Colombian annexation of Guayaquil and Colombia recognized implicitly Peruvian sovereignty of Tumbes, Jaen and Maynas.	Jose de la Mar Agustín Gamarra
Salaverry-Santa Cruz War (1835-1836)	Peru-Bolivia Confederacy	Peru	Defeat Foundation of the confederation.	Felipe Santiago Salaverry
War of the Confederation (1836 - 1839)	Peru-Bolivian Confederation	Chile Peruvian dissidents Argentina	United Restorative Army victory Dissolution of the Confederation.	Various
Iquicha War (1839)	Peru  Chile	Iquichanos	Peru & Chile victory Signature of the Treaty of Yanallay in which the Iquichanos submit to the Republic of Peru. Isolation of the caudillo Antonio Huachaca.	Agustín Gamarra
Peruvian-Bolivian War of 1841-1842 (1841-1842)	Republic of Peru	Bolivia	Cease-fire Treaty of Puno. Bolivian expulsion from southern Peru Peruvian army expelled from Bolivia Bolivian army expelled from Peru	Agustín Gamarra
Ecuadorian–Peruvian territorial dispute of 1857–60	Republic of Peru	Republic of Ecuador	Military Victory of Perú Subscription of the Treaty of Mapasingue.	Ramon Castilla
Chincha Islands War (1864 - 1866)	Peru  Chile Nominal participation:  Ecuador  Bolivia	Spain	Indecisive, both sides claimed victory 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).	Mariano Ignacio Prado
War of the Pacific (1879 - 1883)	Peru  Bolivia	Chile	Defeat Chilean forces capture Lima Chilean forces occupy Tacna and Arica Tacna reincorporated to Peru in 1929. Bolivia loses its access to the sea	Mariano Ignacio Prado es:Luis La Puerta de Mendoza Nicolás de Piérola Francisco García Calderón Lizardo Montero Flores Miguel Iglesias
Forgotten campaign of the Manuripi region (1910)	Peru	Bolivia	Diplomatic Victory[1] Recognition of most of the territory in dispute as belonging to Peru[2]. Delivery of the Purus to the Peruvian territory.[3] Peru recognizes that an area of the territories of Acre —adjacent to the Madre de Dios and Tambotapa rivers (91,726 km^2 (35,416 sq mi))— are Bolivian.[4]. Death of the bolivian captain Lino Echevarria.	Augusto B. Leguía
Conflict of the Pedrera (1911)	Peru	Colombia	Peruvian Victory The Colombian troops were evicted from La Pedrera by Peruvian troops	Augusto B. Leguía
Colombia–Peru War (1932 - 1933)	Peru	Colombia	Statu quo ante bellum Ratification of the Solomon-Lozano Treaty	Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro Óscar R. Benavides
Ecuadorian–Peruvian War (1941)	Peru	Ecuador	Peruvian Victory Signing of the Rio de Janeiro Protocol	Manuel Prado Ugarteche
Paquisha War (1981)	Peru	Ecuador	Peruvian Victory Statu Quo ante bellum of 1942 .	Fernando Belaúnde Terry
War against Terrorism (1980–2017)	Peru	Shining Path MRTA (1982–1997)	Peruvian Victory Sendero Luminoso last groups still active on high jungle.	Fernando Belaúnde Terry Alan García Alberto Fujimori Valentín Paniagua Alejandro Toledo Ollanta Humala Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
Cenepa War (1995)	Peru	Ecuador	Statu quo ante bellum Acta of Brasilia The border was closed, as indicated in the Rio de Janeiro Protocol of 1942, and the end of all differences between the two nations was declared	Alberto Fujimori

References

1. "Bolivia has lost more than 1 million km2 and with whom it has lost the most is with Brazil and Argentina". Infogate, Chile.
2. "Bolivia lost more than half of its territory". Newspaper the Homeland.
3. "The territory of the Bolivian coast". Chilean Navy Magazine.
4. "Las tendencias de largo plazo de la desigualdad regional en el Perú, 1827-2007" (PDF).