List of wars involving Costa Rica

This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Costa Rica.

Costa Rican military victory

Costa Rican military defeat

Indecisive or unclear outcome

Ongoing conflict

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
Ochomogo War (1823)	Republicans	Imperialists	Republican victory
League War (1835)	San José	Alajuela Cartago Heredia	SanJosefine victory San Jose is later made Costa Rica's Capital.
Invasion of Guanacaste (1836)	Costa Rica	Nicaragua Costa Ricans exiled	Victory
Filibuster War (1855–1857)	Allied Central American Army Nicaragua Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Legitimist Party	Filibusters Walker's Nicaragua Democratic Party	Central American alliance victory
Barrios' War of Reunification (1885)	El Salvador Mexico Costa Rica Nicaragua	Guatemala Honduras	Anti-Barrios victory Failure to reunify Central America Death of Justo Rufino Barrios
World War I (1918)	Allied Powers: France United Kingdom and Empire: Australia Canada Ceylon Egypt Newfoundland New Zealand India South Africa Russia (until 1917)^[a] Italy (from 1915) United States (from 1917) Japan Costa Rica and others ...	Central Powers: Germany Austria-Hungary Ottoman Empire Bulgaria (from 1915) and others ...	Allied Powers victory (see Aftermath of World War I) End of the German, Russian, Ottoman, and Austro-Hungarian empires Formation of new countries in Europe and the Middle East Transfer of German colonies and regions of the former Ottoman Empire to other powers Establishment of the League of Nations
Coto War (1921)	Costa Rica	Panama	Victory Panama ceded Coto to Costa Rica^[1]
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 Slovak Republic (1939–1945) Thailand Manchukuo Mengjiang	Victory Collapse of the Third Reich Fall of Japanese and Italian Empires Creation of the United Nations Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers Beginning of the Cold War
Costa Rican Civil War (1948)	Government of Costa Rica Calderon forces People's Vanguard Party Nicaraguan National Guard	National Liberation Army Ulatista Forces Caribbean Legion Supported by: Guatemala United States	Rebel victory Overthrow of authoritarian president Teodoro Picado Michalski Installation of a provisional government led by transitional president José Figueres Ferrer Costa Rican military abolished after nearly half a century of its establishment Constitutional assembly is elected A new Constitution is created and enacted Provisional government transfers power to Otilio Ulate
Calderonista invasion of Costa Rica (1955)	Costa Rica Supported by: United States Organization of American States	Calderón forces Supported by: Nicaragua Venezuela Dominican Republic Guatemala (Diplomatic Support)	Costa Rican government victory
Dominican Civil War (1965)	Loyalist faction United States IAPF Brazil Paraguay Nicaragua Costa Rica El Salvador Honduras^[2]	Constitutionalist faction Dominican Revolutionary Party Social Christian Revolutionary Party June 14th Revolutionary Movement	Loyalist victory Ceasefire declared Formation of the provisional government for new elections Deposition of Juan Bosch of the presidency ratified Organization of presidential elections in 1966 under international supervision Election of Joaquín Balaguer as the new president Establishment of the Fourth Dominican Republic on July 1, 1966

Footnotes

^ The Russian Empire during 1914–1917, the Russian Republic during 1917. The Bolsheviks signed an armistice followed by a separate peace shortly after their armed seizure of power.

References

^ Tomán, René De La Pedraja. Wars of Latin America, 1899-1941, p. 100. Jefferson, NC: McFarland &, 2006.
^ Lawrence Yates (July 1988). "Power Pack: U.S. Intervention in the Dominican Republic 1965–1966" (PDF). Lawrence Papers. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 11, 2017. Retrieved June 28, 2015.

[1] The Russian Empire during 1914–1917, the Russian Republic during 1917. The Bolsheviks signed an armistice followed by a separate peace shortly after their armed seizure of power.

[2] Tomán, René De La Pedraja. Wars of Latin America, 1899-1941, p. 100. Jefferson, NC: McFarland &, 2006.

[NukEm-3] Lawrence Yates (July 1988). "Power Pack: U.S. Intervention in the Dominican Republic 1965–1966" (PDF). Lawrence Papers. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 11, 2017. Retrieved June 28, 2015.

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