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List of wars involving Honduras

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

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results
First Central American Federal War
(1827–1829)
 Federal Republic of Central America Guatemalan rebels
Salvadoran rebels
Victory
  • Decisive victory of the Army Protector of the Law led by general Morazán.
Honduran Campaign (1827)  Honduras

Supported by  El Salvador

 Guatemala Victory
Olancho Uprising (1829-1839)  Honduras Honduras Olanchan rebels Victory
  • Suppression of the rebellion
  • Agreement between the Honduran government and Olanchan rebels
War of 1832  Honduras

 Nicaragua

 El Salvador Victory
  • José María Cornejo is overthrown
  • Salvadoran rebellion is put down
Domínguez's Expedition to Honduras (1831-1832)  Honduras  El Salvador

Guatemalan rebels
Cuban mercenaries Garifuna rebels Mexican Mercenaries

Victory
  • Rebels defeated
  • Vicente Domínguez is executed
  • Honduran independence is preserved
Second Central American Civil War

(1838-1841)

 Honduras

 Guatemala

 Nicaragua

 United Provinces of Central America

 El Salvador

Victory
Cordero's Expedition  Honduras  Guatemala Victory
  • Defeat of Guatemalan forces
Uprisings of 1843  Honduras Honduras Rebels

supported by Nicaragua

Victory
  • Suppression of the rebellion
Western Uprisings (1844)  Honduras Honduras Rebels Victory
  • Suppression of the rebellion
Malespin's War (1844)  Honduras

 El Salvador

 Nicaragua Victory
Honduran-Salvadoran War of 1845 (1845)  Honduras  El Salvador Victory
British Occupation of Trujillo and the Tigre Islands (1849-1850)  Honduras  United Kingdom Victory
Battle of La Arada
(1851)
 El Salvador
 Honduras
Guatemala Defeat
  • Acta Constitutiva de la República ("Constitutive Act of the Republic")
  • Reassurance of Guatemalan sovereignty
  • Dominance of Guatemala in Central America
1851 Honduran Expedition to Nicaragua  Honduras

Rebels

 Nicaragua Victory
  • José Trinidad Muñoz is overthrown
Battle of Los Llanos de Santa Rosa  Honduras  Guatemala

 El Salvador

Victory
  • Honduran army repulses Guatemalan-Salvadoran armies combined
  • Jose Trinidad Cabañas retains the presidency
Honduran-Guatemalan War (1853-1855)  Honduras  Guatemala

Honduras Rebels

Defeat
Filibuster War
(1856–1857)
 Costa Rica
 Nicaragua
Mosquitia
Guatemala
 Honduras
 El Salvador
 United States
Filibusters Victory
  • William Walker's army is defeated and he is arrested by the American Navy, later executed in Honduras
Walker's Expedition to Honduras

(1860)

 Honduras
 United Kingdom
United States American filibusters Victory
War of the Priests
(1860–1861)
 Honduras
 El Salvador
Honduras Anti-secular rebels Victory
  • Victory of the Honduran Government Forces, Honduras became a secular state
Nicaraguan-Salvadoran War (1863)  Honduras

 El Salvador

 Nicaragua Defeat
  • Honduran-Salvadoran armies are defeated
  • Guatemalan-Nicaraguan alliance
Olancho War
(1864–1865)
 Honduras Olancho Rebel Forces Victory
  • Honduras manages to defeat the Olancho's rebels
Honduran-Salvadoran War of 1871 (1871)  Honduras  El Salvador Victory
First Guatemalan-Salvadoran Intervention in Honduras (1872)  Honduras  El Salvador

 Guatemala

Defeat
Sherman Expedition (1873)  Honduras

 Guatemala

Salvadoran rebels

Guatemalan rebels
 Costa Rica

Victory
  • Rebels repulsed
Bombardment of Omoa (1873)  Honduras  United Kingdom Defeat
  • Recompensation for damages suffered for British subjects
Second Guatemalan-Salvadoran Intervention in Honduras (1874)  Honduras  El Salvador

 Guatemala

Defeat
Medinas' Revolt  Honduras Honduras Medina's supporters
 Guatemala
Victory
  • The power is given to Marco Aurelio Soto through a negotiation
  • Defeat of Medina's and Guatemalan forces
1884 Coup attempt against Luis Bogran  Honduras  Nicaragua

Honduras Honduran emigrants

Victory
Barrios' War of Reunification
(1885)
 Guatemala
Supported by:
 Honduras
 El Salvador
 Mexico
 Costa Rica
 Nicaragua
Defeat
Policarpist Revolt (1893)  Honduras  Nicaragua

Policarpist rebels

Victory
  • Defeat of Policarpist rebels
  • Policarpo Bonilla exiled in Nicaragua
Nicaraguan-Honduran War (1893-1894)  Honduras  Nicaragua
Honduras Policarpist rebels
Defeat
  • Domingo Velasquez is overthrown
  • Policarpo Bonilla gains power
Combats of Carrizal and Calpules (1894)  Honduras  Nicaragua Victory
  • Defeat of Nicaraguan forces
  • Settlement between Nicaraguan and Honduran governments
British invasion of Honduras (1898)  Honduras  United Kingdom Victory
  • Expulsion of British forces from Honduran territory
  • Apologies to the Honduran government of part of the British
  • Financial compensation for families affected by the war
  • Compensation and reconstruction of damage caused by the British army.
Armed Conflict of 1903
(1903)
 Honduras Honduras Manuelista rebel army Defeat
  • Victory of the rebel forces.
Honduran-Guatemalan War (1906)  Honduras  Guatemala Victory
  • Honduras resists a Guatemalan Invasion
Armed Conflict of 1907
(1907)
 Honduras
Supported by:
 El Salvador
Honduras Honduran rebels
 Nicaragua
Defeat
War of 1907
(1907)
 Nicaragua
El Salvador Salvadoran exiles
United States American filibusters
Honduras
 El Salvador Inconclusive
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
First Honduran Civil War
(1919)
 Honduras
Supported by:
 United States
 Mexico
Honduras United Rebel Army Defeat
Second Honduran Civil War
(1924)
 Honduras Honduras Constitutionalist Army
Supported by:
 United States
Defeat
Insurrection of 1924
(1924)
 Honduras Honduras Ferrera's Loyal Army Victory
  • The modernized and experienced Honduran Army managed to handle better the conflict and lead to the defeat of general Ferrera's loyalist army.
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
Mocoron War (1957)  Honduras  Nicaragua Victory
Combats of El Chaparral and El Dorado  Honduras Sandinist Rebels Victory
Dominican Civil War
(1965–1966)
 Dominican Loyalists
 United States
 Brazil
 Paraguay
 Honduras
 Nicaragua
 Costa Rica
 El Salvador
 Dominican Constitutionalists Victory
Football War
(1969)
 Honduras  El Salvador Ceasefire
Operation Golden Pheasant
(1988)
 United States
 Honduras
 Nicaragua Victory
  • Withdrawal of Nicaraguan forces from Honduran territory
Iraq War
(2003–2004)
 Iraq
 United States
 United Kingdom
 South Korea
 Italy
 Poland
 Australia
 Georgia
 Ukraine
 Netherlands
 Romania
 Denmark
 Spain
 El Salvador
 Honduras
 Nicaragua
 Dominican Republic
Baath Loyalists
ISI
al-Qaeda in Iraq
Mahdi Army
Special Groups
IAI
Ansar al-Sunnah

 Ba'athist Iraq

Victory

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