| Conflict
|
Combatant 1
|
Combatant 2
|
Results
|
Head of State
|
Nicaraguan Independence Movements
(1811–1812)
|
Nicaraguan revolutionaries
|
Spanish Empire
|
Defeat
|
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
|
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
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)
|
Liberal Government
|
Conservative Rebels
United States
|
Regime change
- Estrada recognized as President of Nicaragua
|
Mena's Rebellion
(1912)
|
Conservative Government
United States
|
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)
|
Conservative Government
United States
|
Liberal Rebels
|
Government victory
|
Sandinistas War
(1927–1933)
|
Conservative Government
United States
|
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)
|
Somoza Government
Contras
|
FSLN
|
Regime change
- Overthrow of Somoza government
|
Anastasio Somoza Debayle
|
Miskito Conflict
(1982–1987)
|
Nicaragua
|
 Miskito Guerrillas
|
Victory
|
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
|
SCJL
Naqshbandi Army
ISI
al-Qaeda
FIA
Ansar al-Islam
IAI
Mahdi Army
Special Groups
Badr Brigades
Kata'ib Hezbollah
|
Victory
|
Enrique Bolaños
|
