List of wars involving Nicaragua

This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Nicaragua.

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results Head of State
Nicaraguan Independence Movements
(1811–1812)
Nicaraguan revolutionaries Spanish Empire Defeat
  • Revolts suppressed
José de Salvador y Antoli
Civil war of 1824
(1824)
Fiebres Timbucos Fiebres victory José Anacleto Ordóñez
Cerda-Argüello War
(1827–1828)
Liberal Federalists Conservative Federalists Liberal victory Juan Argüello del Castillo
Flores' Rebellion
(1834)
Nicaraguan Government Anti-Constitutionalist Rebels Government victory
  • Cándido Flores is defeated in Managua and later flees Granada
José Núñez

Invasion of Guanacaste
(1836)

Nicaragua
Costa Ricans exiled

Costa Rica

Defeat

  • Withdrawal of Nicaraguan forces
Manuel Quijano
Malespín's War
(1844–1845)
 Nicaragua El Salvador
 Honduras
Defeat Emiliano Madriz
Blas Antonio Sáenz
Silvestre Selva
Recapture of San Juan del Norte
(1848)
 Nicaragua  United Kingdom
Kingdom of Mosquitia
Defeat José María Guerrero
Granada-León Civil War
(1853–1855)
Legitimists Democrats Stalemate Fruto Chamorro
Francisco Castellón
Filibuster War
(1855–1857)
 Nicaragua

 Costa Rica
Guatemala
 Honduras
 El Salvador
 United States

Filibusters
Nicaragua Democrats
Legitimist victory Fruto Chamorro
William Walker
Barrios' War of Reunification
(1885)
 El Salvador
 Mexico
 Costa Rica
 Nicaragua
 Guatemala
 Honduras
Victory Adán Cárdenas
Nicaragua Crisis of 1895
(1894–1895)
 Nicaragua  United Kingdom Victory José Santos Zelaya
Honduran Civil War
(1906–1907)
Liberal Rebels
 Nicaragua
 Honduras
 El Salvador
Victory
  • Dávila becomes President of Honduras
Estrada's Rebellion
(1909–1910)
Nicaragua Liberal Government Nicaragua Conservative Rebels
 United States
Regime change
  • Estrada recognized as President of Nicaragua
Mena's Rebellion
(1912)
Nicaragua Conservative Government
 United States
Nicaragua Liberal Rebels Government victory
  • Liberal rebels exiled to Panama
Adolfo Díaz
World War I
(1918)
 France
 United Kingdom
 Russia
 United States
 Italy
 Japan
 China
 Canada
 Australia
 New Zealand
 India
 South Africa
 Serbia
 Montenegro
 Romania
 Belgium
 Greece
 Portugal
 Brazil
 Cuba
 Panama
 Guatemala
 Nicaragua
 Costa Rica
 Honduras
 Germany
 Austria-Hungary
 Ottoman Empire
 Bulgaria
Victory Emiliano Chamorro Vargas
Constitutionalist War
(1926–1927)
Nicaragua Conservative Government
 United States
Nicaragua Liberal Rebels Government victory
Sandinistas War
(1927–1933)
Nicaragua Conservative Government
 United States
Nicaragua Sandinistas Government victory
  • Sandinistas surrender their weapons
Adolfo Díaz
World War II
(1941–1945)
 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
 Germany
 Japan
 Italy
 Hungary
 Romania
 Bulgaria
 Croatia
 Slovakia
 Finland
 Thailand
 Manchukuo
 Mengjiang
Victory Anastasio Somoza García
Costa Rican Civil War
(1948)
 Costa Rica
Calderón Forces
People's Vanguard Party
 Nicaragua
National Liberation Movement
Ulatistas
Defeat Víctor Manuel Román
Invasion of Costa Rica
(1955)
Calderón Forces
 Nicaragua
 Costa Rica Defeat
  • Nicaraguan withdrawal from Costa Rica
Anastasio Somoza García
Dominican Civil War
(1965–1966)
 Dominican Loyalists
 United States
 Brazil
 Paraguay
 Honduras
 Nicaragua
 Costa Rica
 El Salvador
 Dominican Constitutionalists Victory René Schick
Nicaraguan Revolution
(1972–1990)
Nicaragua Somoza Government
Nicaragua Contras
FSLN Regime change
  • Overthrow of Somoza government
Anastasio Somoza Debayle
Miskito Conflict
(1982–1987)
 Nicaragua Miskito Guerrillas Victory
  • Guerillas defeated
Daniel Ortega
Operation Golden Pheasant
(1988)
 Nicaragua  United States
 Honduras
Defeat
  • Withdrawal of Nicaraguan forces from Honduran territory
Iraq War
(2003–2004)
 Iraq
Iraqi Kurdistan
MNF–I
Iraq SCJL
Iraq Naqshbandi Army
ISI
al-Qaeda
Iraq FIA
Ansar al-Islam
IAI
Mahdi Army
Special Groups
Badr Brigades
Kata'ib Hezbollah
Victory Enrique Bolaños